Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, the WWE fighter turned into an actor, has surpassed former American vice president Kamala Harris as the main Democratic contender for the 2028 presidential race on the Polymarket decentralized betting platform.
From now on, the actions that bet “in Johnson’s victory are operated at 7 cents, which implies a 7% probability that the billionaire actor wins the nomination. This places it fourth in the race, behind Gavin Newsom, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pete Buttigieg.
Meanwhile, merchants have a price of a 5% probability that Harris won the offer, placing it in fifth place along with Andy Beshear. Merchants also see the 1% possibilities of Tim Waltz, Michelle Obama and Mark Cuban emerging victorious.
Polymarket is a decentralized prediction market platform that allows users to speculate on the result of real world events, such as the elections and movements of assets prices, when negotiating actions that represent different results.
The betting platform announced on Tuesday that it has assured an investment of the Risk Capital 1789 Capital and Donald Trump JR, son of the president of the United States, as a member of his advisor Board.
They asked me to run for president
In 2023, Johnson revealed that multiple parties also approached him if he would apply for the president of the United States after a survey showed that 46% of Americans would support their career in the White House.
“That was an interesting survey that happened and it moved me a lot,” said Johnson. “I was really impressed and I felt really honored. I will share this little with you: at the end of the year in 2022, I received a visit from the parties wondering if I was going to run, and if I could run,” Johnson said in the new Podcast of Trevor Noah, what now?
The rock, which described itself as a centrist and independent political, supported Joe Biden in the period prior to the 2020 elections, but refused to do the same last year.
The actor is not only a Hollywood superstar, but also a social media marketing power, with 392 million followers on Instagram. His professional career exhibited unmatched “promotional skills, which could be useful if he decides to follow a political campaign.
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