Former wrestler Hulk Hogan dismissed polling data indicating a tight 2024 presidential election, and said instead it will be a “landside” in support of former President Donald Trump.
The wrestling icon made a major splash when he spoke at the Republican National Convention, in which he endorsed the former president to “let Trumpamania run again.” Since then, Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, has been traveling across the country to promote his new beer brand, and has discovered through his travels that “everybody’s for Trump.”
“So I hear what you’re saying about the polls, and it’s even-Steven, and it might be a close call, but let me tell you something, I don’t believe the polls,” Hogan said on Fox News’s One Nation with Brian Kilmeade. “It’s going to be a landslide. Too big to rig, brother, is the theme here, and at the end of the day, all of America wants to get back to America. Not the way it used to be, but the way it should be, brother.”
Hogan also addressed Trump’s appearance at the Al Smith dinner, which he praised for Trump’s various jokes, including one aimed at “white dudes for Harris.” In addition to Trump’s comedic ability, Hogan also spoke highly of Trump’s business experience, and claimed “that’s what this country needs.”
“We want God in our homes, and in our schools, and in our country,” Hogan said. “We basically want safety, we want, basically, to have great lives, and we want to be able to economically afford to live a good life and take care of our children. Trump is all about that. Everything I hear on the other side is supposed to be hope and happy, it all sounds like doom and gloom to me.”
Hogan compared Trump’s campaign platform to the “Americana” platform that then-President John F. Kennedy had in the 1960s. He explained that Kennedy’s Democratic Party at the time was the “middle of the road, country, western, Nascar” type of party, and the Republican Party now represents this in the 2020s.
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The former wrestler has kept himself busy post-wrestling with his new beer brand, Real American Beer, which he got the idea for while spending time with his opponent before a wrestling match. He noted how many people and neighbors across the country will not talk to each other due to political differences, so he decided to start his beer brand to “bring the country back together one beer at a time.”
With just a few weeks left before the 2024 presidential election, RealClearPolitics’s polling average shows Trump holding a two-point national lead over Harris. Presidential historian Allan Lichtman, however, has predicted that these polls are “underestimating Democratic voting strength,” noting that similar polls in 2016 were underestimating Republican voter turnout.
