{"id":52832,"date":"2023-11-10T09:06:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/10\/dwayne-johnson-approached-to-run-for-us-presidency\/"},"modified":"2023-11-10T09:06:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:06:38","slug":"dwayne-johnson-approached-to-run-for-us-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/10\/dwayne-johnson-approached-to-run-for-us-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson approached to run for US Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-11-10\" datetime=\"1699607198\" pubdate=\"\">10 November 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dwayne &#8216;The Rock&#8217; Johnson has been approached by political parties to run in the next US election.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Dwayne Johnson has been approached by political parties<\/p>\n<p>The wrestler-turned-actor has previously discussed the prospect of entering the political arena, and Dwayne has now revealed that he&#8217;s already been approached by political parties about making a run for the White House.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance on the &#8216;What Now? with Trevor Noah&#8217; podcast, Dwayne shared: &#8220;At the end of the year in 2022, I got a visit from the parties asking me if I was going to run, and if I could run.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, a poll revealed that almost half of Americans would support Dwayne if he decided to run for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old actor has admitted to being flattered by the support, saying that he was &#8220;really honoured&#8221; by the result of the poll.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;That was an interesting poll that happened and I was really moved by that. I was really blown away and I was really honoured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nDwayne was shocked by the results of the survey. However, he&#8217;s refused to reveal which political parties have approached him.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe &#8216;San Andreas&#8217; actor said: &#8220;It was a big deal, and it came out of the blue. It was one after the other, and they brought up that poll, and they also brought up their own deep-dive research.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Dwayne previously revealed that he wants to &#8220;unite&#8221; America.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Hollywood star suggested in 2021 that he could run for the White House in a bid to bring the country together.<\/p>\n<p>\nDwayne told &#8216;Sunday TODAY with Willie Geist&#8217;: &#8220;I do have that goal to unite our country and I also feel that if this is what the people want, then I will do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nDespite this, Dwayne refused to reveal which party he would represent, after a survey from Piplsay &#8211; a consumer trends company &#8211; found that 46 percent of Americans would consider voting for him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/dwayne-johnson-approached-run-presidency-1388182.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 November 2023 Dwayne &#8216;The Rock&#8217; Johnson has been approached by political parties to run in the next US election. Dwayne Johnson has been approached by political parties The wrestler-turned-actor has previously discussed the prospect of entering the political arena, and Dwayne has now revealed that he&#8217;s already been approached by political parties about making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[71,215],"class_list":{"0":"post-52832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-dwayne-johnson","9":"tag-trevor-noah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}