{"id":126439,"date":"2024-04-06T14:09:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T14:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/06\/dwayne-johnson-refuses-to-endorse-any-candidate-in-2024-election\/"},"modified":"2024-04-06T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T14:09:12","slug":"dwayne-johnson-refuses-to-endorse-any-candidate-in-2024-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/06\/dwayne-johnson-refuses-to-endorse-any-candidate-in-2024-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson Refuses to Endorse Any Candidate in 2024 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>Despite enjoying the anti-heroic <em>Black Adam <\/em>in 2022 DCEU film, Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson is taking a decidedly non-partisan stance forward of the 2024 presidential election, vowing to remain impartial and never endorse any presidential candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was one I thought was the best decision for me at that time,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6350291762112\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6350291762112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Johnson stated Friday in an interview on Fox News.<\/a> \u201cI thought, \u2018I\u2019m in this position where I have some influence and I felt it was my job then to exercise my influence [and] share: This is who I\u2019m going to endorse.\u2019 I\u2019m not going to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not one for modesty, The Rock as soon as once more brags and to no person\u2019s shock, facilities all the things on himself and boldly claims:  I used to be then, probably the most adopted man on this planet, and am at this time, and I respect that \u2026 however what that triggered was one thing that tears me up in my guts \u2014 which is division. \u201cThat got me. I didn\u2019t realize that then, I just felt like there was a lot of unrest and I\u2019d like things to calm down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After going through backlash over his presidential endorsement in 2020, Johnson has adopted a extra impartial stance for the upcoming 2024 election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson added: \u201cThe takeaway after that was it caused an incredible amount of division. I realize now going into this election, I will not do that. My goal is to bring this country together. I believe in that. There will be no endorsement. At this level of influence, I will keep my politics to myself. It is between me and the ballot box. But I will tell you this: Like a lot of us out there, not trusting of all politicians, I do trust the American people and whoever they vote for that is my president and who I will support 100 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson additionally expressed frustration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/heroichollywood.com\/the-flash-joe-west-arc-reflect-political-climate\/\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">present political and cultural local weather<\/a>, taking intention at \u201ccancel culture\u201d and \u201cwoke tradition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s cancel culture, woke culture, division, etcetera \u2014 that really bugs me,\u201d Johnson stated. \u201cIn the spirit of that, you either succumb to that and be what other people want you to be, or you be yourself and be real \u2026 and that might make people upset and piss people off, and that\u2019s OK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, who was certainly cancelled as a DC superhero and personally escorted off the Warner Bros. lot by James Gunn and Peter Safran, is presently rumored to be making an look in an upcoming Marvel Studios film. Johnson can also be one of many fundamental occasions on this weekend\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/shows\/wrestlemania\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wwe.com\/shows\/wrestlemania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WrestleMania 40<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, take a look at the complete interview with Fox News within the embed under:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"vODRYedvIE0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An exclusive interview with Dwayne &#039;The Rock&#039; Johnson | Will Cain Show\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vODRYedvIE0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"vODRYedvIE0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"An exclusive interview with Dwayne &#039;The Rock&#039; Johnson | Will Cain Show\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vODRYedvIE0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Despite enjoying the anti-heroic Black Adam in 2022 DCEU film, Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson is taking a decidedly non-partisan stance forward of the 2024 presidential election, vowing to remain impartial and never endorse any presidential candidates. \u201cThe endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was one I thought was the best decision for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-126439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}