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    The Case for Kid Rock

    The singer and rapper who once expressed a desire to be a cowboy now just wants to be a senator, baby.
    by David A. Graham Jul 13, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Carlos Osorio / AP

    Kid Rock claims he is running for United States Senate. While I am skeptical—

    OK, go ahead and get those jokes out. I’ll wait.

    Are you good now? Those name jokes are not as funny or original as you think.

    —anyway, while I am skeptical that we see a Senator Rock, or even a nominee Rock, in the near future, it’s also not entirely crazy to think that a run for office by Robert James Richtie could be, uh, “So Hott.”

    There are many questions to be answered about Rock’s trial balloon. He has been rumored, semi-jokingly, as a candidate for the Senate race in, and on Thursday tweeted this:

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