Can Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson win the California governorship?

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Doesn't he live in Florida? I've always associated him more with Florida.


EDIT: I know he graduated & played for the University of Miami. Apparently, he owns a house in Broward County & another house in LA.

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-Well Newsom approval ratings is in the 40s in a state where democrats routinely go 60%+

1. There's been 3 approval polls of Newsom in the last week. One in the 40s and two in the 50s.

2. Approval ratings ≠ Electoral support. I'm not liking Newsom right now, but like hell am I gonna vote for recall or a Republican over him.

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He won't get any support from GOP right wingers, who would stay home in a Newsom vs. Johnson runoff.

He's a pro-wrestler/professional athlete, action movie star, and popular among military servicemen, of course he would. Not to mention his general crossover appeal and stellar name recognition.

He's very much in the vein of a Schwarzenegger Republican and I'm not sure the CA GOP would fall head over heels for that again, especially with the current tug-of-war between Falconer lean-R types and the conservative Trump supporters (The latter of which would likely find his Biden endorsement disqualifying)

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For those saying he can win because Arnold Schwarzenegger won in 2003 and was elected easily in 2006. This was the gubernatorial map in Wyoming that year. States and the political environment change.

(not even I'm hackish enough to think this is plausible, why is the reverse considered serious ?)

All you had to do was post the 2006 CA Gubernatorial map.



Arnold did better margin-wise just 15 years ago than Reagan ever did in California.

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He has a decent chance however that depends how far left he plans to go, the further the left the more Californians would drool over him.
However, at the same time I don't think the Rock has enough political experience to run for office.

Because Arnold did?

I honestly get the sense that Arnold is far more intellectual than The Rock. Plus, just from watching Pumping Iron, you can tell the guy has a borderline supernatural sense of determination and competitiveness. To say nothing of his very shrewd business sense, or the fact that he quickly rose from unknown, broke immigrant to the top of the world. (He was a multimillionaire BEFORE he even starred in his first movie, he was that skilled with business investments.) He ACTUALLY represented the best of the American dream in a way Trump just pretended to.

But The Rock is just a wrestler who has appeared in mostly bad B-movies (even Arnold appeared in more truly good movies). I actually in some respects see The Rock as more similar to Reagan than Arnold, in that they are both guys with flashy smiles who play nice and were lousy actors in bad movies, but ultimately don't seem to have a whole lot going on upstairs. Whereas I think Arnold truly is a very intelligent man. There is a non-zero chance I would have voted for Arnold over a mediocre Democratic nominee in an alternate timeline when the GOP was less crazy and the "natural-born citizen" clause didn't exist. I doubt I would ever vote for The Rock unless the alternative was truly terrible.

Man, sounds like you absolutely hate The Rock. That makes me a little sad.