WWE monster wins Tennessee mayoral race
Glenn Jacobs, better known as ‘Kane’, won the mayoral seat for Knox County in Tennessee on Thursday night.
The towering 6-foot-8 ‘Big Red Machine’, who won the Republican primary in a tightly contested race earlier this year, easily defeated Democrat candidate Linda Haney to win the Tennessee county’s top political office.
WWE congratulated their superstar on social site Twitter on his win. “Kane came away with a strong political victory following a narrow victory in the primary election two months ago,” WWE said, noting how the win capped 'a path to office that began over a year ago'.
Last night was a great one for the new Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee... @KaneWWE! https://t.co/gmnZovlRKw
— WWE (@WWE) August 4, 2018
However, the 51-year-old wrestler isn’t the first WWE superstar to make the jump to politics. Jesse “The Body” Ventura served as a Minnesota mayor before eventually becoming the state’s governor in 1998.
Linda McMahon who served for years as an executive for WWE launched two unsuccessful bids for a US senate seat. McMahon currently serves in President Donald Trump’s cabinet as the head of the Small Business Administration.
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