Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is making it clear that he won’t be endorsing anyone this year for the upcoming election after backing President Joe Biden in 2020.
“The endorsement that I made years ago with Biden was one I thought was the best decision for me at that time,” Johnson said in a new interview with Fox News. “I thought back then… I’m in this position where I have some influence,” the 51-year-old “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” star said. “I felt like that then, it’s my job now to exercise my influence and share this is who I’m going to endorse,” he said.
2020 marked the first time The Rock made an endorsement on any political campaign. In 2020 he stated that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were the “best choice to lead our country” but now he’s had a change of heart. “Am I going to do that again this year? That answer’s no,” the pro-wrestler-turned-actor said in his Fox News interview. “I also realized that what that caused back then, was something that tears me up in my gut back then and now, which is division,” he said.
“The takeaway after that — months, and months and months [later] — I started to realize like, oh man, that caused an incredible amount of division in our country,” Johnson continued, adding that history wouldn’t repeat itself.
“So I realized now going into this election, I’m not going to do that. I wouldn’t do that because my goal is to bring our country together. I believe in that in my DNA.”
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“In the spirit of that, there’s gonna be no endorsement. Not that I’m afraid of it at all, but it’s just I realize that this level of influence, I’m going to keep my politics to myself. I think it’s between me and the ballot box,” Johnson said.