The White House is not yet fretting over a potential 2020 challenge from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and a new political action committee filed with the FEC this week to convince the movie star and former WWE wrestler to run doesn’t appear to have changed the administration’s stance.
“I’ll believe it when I see it,” a White House official told BuzzFeed News in June, making it clear that they didn’t see the topic as a serious one. The official declined to comment when asked Wednesday to follow up now that a West Virginia man with no connection to Johnson has launched a PAC backing his potential candidacy.
The “Fast and Furious” star, who is a registered Independent, has toyed with the idea of running for president for more than a year. In a popular Instagram post last summer, Johnson promoted a Washington Post story suggesting he could win the presidency. “I care DEEPLY about our county… and the idea of one day becoming President to create real positive impact and global change is very alluring,” he said in the post.
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