{"id":5069,"date":"2016-03-27T15:01:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T15:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2016-03-27T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T15:01:19","slug":"the-rock-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/the-rock-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rock Speaks Out About Running For President; Sounds Pretty Serious&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/zac-efron-the-rock-baywatch\/\">The Rock<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/inside-the-mind-of-donald-trump\/\">president<\/a>?<\/strong><\/em> Sounds <a href=\"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/cash-me-outside-girl-is-going-back-onto-dr-phil\/\">crazy<\/a>, right? Well, yeah. But hey, we&#8217;ve had B-movie actor <em><strong>Ronald Reagan<\/strong><\/em> as president before. And action star <em><strong>Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/strong> <\/em>as Governor of California, of course. And let&#8217;s not even get started with <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/anonymous-donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/em><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s not outside of the realms of possibility that <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dailydigest.com\/zac-efron-the-rock-baywatch\/\">Dwayne Johnson<\/a><\/strong><\/em> could be a good candidate for the future, is it? And the website Independent Journal have put forward the case. Here&#8217;s what they said:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;As a growing number of Americans grow disillusioned with the major Democrat and Republican\u00a0candidates, they are beginning to hope for a 3rd party candidate that represents their values to step in.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;To that end, there\u2019s a new movement\u00a0calling on one man to step up and bring together these divided Americans in a way that current two-party candidates haven\u2019t been able to, and that man is Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Turns out The Rock&#8217;s read the article. He&#8217;s just\u00a0given his views on it too. And he&#8217;s seems keen on the job! Here&#8217;s what he tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cool piece on why I should run for President. Maybe one day. Surely the White <a href=\"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/is-it-worth-buying-or-renting-in-2025\/\">House<\/a> has a spot for my pick up truck..<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JpkZ4w1eh3\">https:\/\/t.co\/JpkZ4w1eh3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRock\/status\/713338883187032064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Everyone love The Rock. So why not, huh?! We&#8217;d consider voting for him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rock for president? Sounds crazy, right? Well, yeah. But hey, we&#8217;ve had B-movie actor Ronald Reagan as president before. And action star Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor of California, of course. And let&#8217;s not even get started with Donald Trump&#8230; So it&#8217;s not outside of the realms of possibility that Dwayne Johnson could be a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5070,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1299,1300,3622,3624],"class_list":{"0":"post-5069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dwayne-johnson","9":"tag-dwayne-johnson-for-president","10":"tag-the-rock","11":"tag-the-rock-for-president"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Rock Speaks Out About Running For President; Sounds Pretty Serious... - Daily Digest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailydigest.com\/the-rock-for-president\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Rock Speaks Out About Running For President; Sounds Pretty Serious...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Rock for president? 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