I'm against it. But we're livin' in a country where the majority rule and I'm not, as a talk show host, overturning "Roe v. Wade"." In the 2016 presidential election, Schultz endorsed U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders for President of the United States. Schultz died of natural causes on July 5, 2018. At the time of his death he was a news anchor for RT America, part of Russia's international cable network. RT's editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said, "We are devastated by the news of the sudden death of our brilliant anchor, one of the best TV journalists in America, Ed Schultz". A Facebook post from Independent U.S. Senator, Bernie Sanders read: