After endorsing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2020 — and even saying in 2021 that he would “consider a presidential run in the future if that’s what the people wanted” — Dwayne Johnson is walking back his support for the incumbents in the 2024 election.
In an interview with Will Cain on Fox News, Johnson expressed dissatisfaction with the state of America and said the he won’t be endorsing any candidates in the 2024 election. “The endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was one I thought was the best decision for me at that time,” Johnson said. “I thought, ‘I’m 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’m going to endorse.’ I’m not going to do that.”
He continued by pondering what his influence means in this day and age of political polarization: “I was then, the most followed man in the world, and am today, and I appreciate that … but what that caused was something that tears me up in my guts — which is division. That got me. I didn’t realize that then, I just felt like there was a lot of unrest and I’d like things to calm down.”
When asked who he’d be personally voting for this November, Johnson refused to disclose. “At this level of influence, I will keep my politics to myself. It is between me and the ballot box,” he told Cain. “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.”
Asked about how he feels about the state of the country, Johnson claims to prefer national unity over the faux battle of “wokeness”: “Today’s cancel culture, woke culture, division, etcetera — that really bugs me,” he said. “In 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 … and that might make people upset and piss people off, and that’s OK.” Johnson also refuted the idea that he’d ever run for office, telling the Fox News host “I’m not a politician.”
Despite his initial interest in holding office, the actor claimed in 2022 that running is “off the table,” saying he’s much more focused on being a father. Johnson is a self-described “independent” with “centrist leanings,” and made waves when he sat with Biden and Harris to endorse them in 2020. Meanwhile, Johnson is making a major return to WWE, appearing at Wrestlemania 40 this weekend.