Kelsey Grammer is open to one day running for political office — if the timing is right.
“I would consider it. It would possibly tick that box for me, in terms of the service I feel I should have given to my fellow man — to my fellow countrymen — that I missed in the military,” Grammer, 71, exclusively shared with Us Weekly while celebrating Fox Nation’s new documentary The Patriot War. “Maybe that would be the way to do it. I have wrestled with it.”
Entering politics, according to Grammer, isn’t something you can decide overnight.
“I have a young family. I don’t want to be an absentee dad, so I put it on hold a little bit, but I do intend to live for quite a while,” the actor shared. “I’m still pretty vital, and numbers may tell one story that maybe most people wouldn’t understand. … I’m vital and prepared to stay that way for quite a while, and yes, it’s likely I will at least throw my hat in the ring in some way.”
Grammer — who has eight children ranging from a newborn son to a 42-year-old adult daughter — has previously used his platform in Hollywood to speak out about politics, causes dear to his heart and American history.
To this day, Grammer remembers the day he registered for the military draft during the Vietnam War. While he was ultimately not pulled into the conflict, the Emmy winner knows how close he got to fighting for his country.
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“There were people — my peers, young people my age — who went and died there,” he explained. “I always thought there was a kind of sense of personal deficit in my own life, in my life story, that I didn’t serve in the military because my father had, my grandfather had, but in the circumstances of Vietnam and my generation, it was less attractive in some ways. I breathed a sigh of relief, and I didn’t go, and now I have a sense of regret that I should have served in some way anyway.”
While it’s far too soon to say what Grammer will run for — if and when he chooses to enter a political race — the actor may have a strategy to bring about change to a country he loves so much.
“I think you gotta make good suggestions, have good ideas, follow through with them, bring along a crowd of people that actually believe in something positive and love each other,” he said. “And you can then make a difference.”
For now, Grammer is focused on hosting Fox Nation’s The Patriot War, a new series exploring America’s fight for independence and George Washington’s faith and tenacity.
The program aims to reconnect audiences with the foundational principles and historical figures who shaped the United States.
“It’s another sort of page in my ongoing dedication to getting the story of our past out there — our history,” Grammer explained to Us. “I’ve been involved with Fox Nation on, I think, four projects, but this one I feel particularly good about.”
He continued, “I am very, very proud to be connected in a deep way to the selfless and courageous acts of the people who founded this country, and I look on it as an obligation to continue what is a love letter in a lot of ways, but a deep gratitude for the opportunity they gave me. I mean, if they hadn’t been here, who knows?”
The Patriot War is streaming now on Fox Nation with new episodes being released Sunday, June 28.
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