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Chris Morris

Dwayne Johnson says he considered running for office a few years ago but didn't want to be 'pulled away from my little ones'

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Despite efforts to draft him into the presidential elections in 2020, actor, entrepreneur and former pro wrestler Dwayne Johnson says he opted instead to focus on his family.

“A few years ago, things got very serious and I was having meetings behind closed doors, that weren’t even necessarily encouraged by me, but they came to me,” he said in an on-air interview on CNBC on Thursday. “I really had to consider and take my time. Then I realized, in having these conversations…that the most important thing to me is being a father to my little one.”

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