{"id":44509,"date":"2025-08-28T08:16:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=44509"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:16:42","slug":"dwayne-the-rock-johnson-leads-kamala-harris-as-2028-democratic-presidential-hopeful-on-polymarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=44509","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne &#8216;The Rock&#8217; Johnson Leads Kamala Harris as 2028 Democratic Presidential Hopeful on Polymarket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson, the WWE wrestler-turned-actor, has surpassed former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris as the leading Democratic contender for the 2028 presidential race on the decentralized betting platform <a href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/event\/democratic-presidential-nominee-2028\">Polymarket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, shares betting &#8220;yes&#8221; on Johnson&#8217;s victory are trading at 7 cents, implying a 7% chance of the multi-millionaire actor winning the nomination. This places him fourth in the race, behind Gavin Newsom, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Pete Buttigieg.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, traders priced in a 5% probability of Harris winning the bid, placing her in the 5th spot alongside Andy Beshear. Traders also see 1% chance of Tim Waltz, Michelle Obama and Mark Cuban emerging victorious.<\/p>\n<p>Polymarket is a decentralized prediction market platform that enables users to speculate on the outcome of real-world events, such as elections and asset price movements, by trading shares representing different outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>The betting platform announced Tuesday that it has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/08\/26\/donald-trump-jr-invests-in-usd1b-prediction-market-polymarket-through-vc-firm-1789-capital\">secured an investment from venture capital firm 1789 Capital and Donald Trump Jr<\/a>, son of the U.S. President, as a member of its advisory board.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/s3y3vcno\/production\/b6603f60f29d98558d35203df8c7286e9176f205-2808x1419.png?auto=format\" alt=\"Democratic presidential nominee 2028. (Polymarket)\" title=\"Democratic presidential nominee 2028. (Polymarket)\"><\/p>\n<h2>I was asked to run for President<\/h2>\n<p>In 2023, Johnson disclosed that multiple parties approached him too see if he would run for U.S. President after a poll showed that 46% of Americans would support his run in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was an interesting poll that happened and I was really moved by that,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;I was really blown away and I was really honored. I&#8217;ll share this little bit with you: at the end of the year in 2022, I got a visit from the parties asking me if I was going to run, and if I could run,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2023\/nov\/10\/dwayne-the-rock-johnsonus-president-run-party\">Johnson said<\/a> on Trevor Noah&#8217;s new Spotify podcast, What Now?<\/p>\n<p>The Rock, who has described himself as a centrist and political independent, endorsed Joe Biden in the lead-up to the 2020 election but refused to do the same last year.<\/p>\n<p>The actor is not only a Hollywood superstar but also a social media marketing powerhouse, boasting 392 million followers on Instagram. His pro-wrestling career showcased unmatched &#8220;promo skills,&#8221; which could come in handy if he decides to pursue a political campaign.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/08\/26\/donald-trump-jr-invests-in-usd1b-prediction-market-polymarket-through-vc-firm-1789-capital\">Donald Trump Jr.&#8217;s 1789 Capital Takes Stake in Prediction Market Polymarket<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwayne &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Johnson, the WWE wrestler-turned-actor, has surpassed former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris as the leading Democratic contender for the 2028 presidential race on the decentralized betting platform Polymarket. As of now, shares betting &#8220;yes&#8221; on Johnson&#8217;s victory are trading at 7 cents, implying a 7% chance of the multi-millionaire actor winning the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-44509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}