Just last week we shared the news that Kid Rock was seriously thinking of running for the U.S. Senate in the 2018 midterms, making us wonder what rocker or musician actually ran for a political office. This list will surprise you..
Wyclef Jean tried to become President of Haiti; the problem is the Electoral Commission ultimately ruled that he didn’t meet residency requirements.
2 Live Crew’s Luther Campbell once ran for mayor of Miami-Dade County, but received only 11% of the vote.
Nirvana‘s Krist Novoselic considered running for Washington state’s Lieutenant Governor in 2004, but changed his mind at the last minute.
98 Degrees’ Justin Jeffre ran for the Mayor of Cincinnati, receiving only 708 votes in the primary. Finally, Clay Aiken ran for Congress in North Carolina’s 2nd congressional district in 2014, actually winning the Democratic Primary.
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