Zeigler has also broken national stories, including the coming out of then-NFL prospect Michael Sam, transgender Div.

1 NCAA athlete Kye Allums, openly gay football players Wade Davis and Alan Gendreau, and more.

[10] On March 30, 2023, Zeigler announced on Twitter that he had become a registered Republican for the first time in 20 years, stating that "progressives and Democrats seeking to use the government to attack political foes must be stopped.

He defended the announcement by stating that he did not like Donald Trump, but then interacted with and promoted the account of Florida governor Ron DeSantis — who was campaigning for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election.

LGBT publications such as The Advocate and the Washington Blade considered the implicit endorsement of DeSantis to be a "betrayal" of the LGBT community (and especially the transgender community), citing DeSantis's support of anti-LGBT policies such as the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act.