Actor and author Matthew McConaughey announced on Sunday that he would not be running for governor of Texas at this time, after months o...
Actor and author Matthew McConaughey announced on Sunday that he would not be running for governor of Texas at this time, after months of debating whether he would run for the post.
In a video Posted on Twitter and Instagram, Mr McConaughey, 52, said running for governor is a “humiliating and inspiring path to ponder”.
“It is also a path that I choose not to take at this time,” he said.
Mr McConaughey’s announcement came about two weeks before the deadline for applications for the Texas primary, and about two weeks after Beto o’rourke, a former congressman from El Paso and the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, has announced his candidacy against Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican.
Mr McConaughey’s announcement also came weeks after he attracted wide attention for saying he would not impose vaccines on young children because he would like more information, adding that in his household, “we are going slowly on vaccinations, even before Covid”.
Instead of running for governor, McConaughey said, he would continue to support entrepreneurs, businesses and foundations who are “leaders,” institutions that “create pathways for people to succeed in life. “And” organizations whose mission is to serve and build trust, while generating prosperity.
“It’s the American dream,” he said. “What about the politicians? The good guys can help us get where we need to go. Yes, but let’s be clear: they can’t do anything for us unless we choose to do it for ourselves. “
When asked if he would run for governor in an interview in October On the New York Times’ “Sway” podcast, Mr McConaughey said he was learning more about politics and measuring whether politics is “an embassy for me that will serve me the most, to my family, to the greatest number of people in my life ahead.
“I like to measure things before I participate,” he said on the podcast. “And you have to participate before you participate.”
Mr. McConaughey is known for his roles in films such as “Interstellar”, “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Dallas Buyers Club”, for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor in 2014. Last year, he published a thesis, ” Green light “.
Mr McConaughey had not previously indicated whether he would run for governor as a Republican or a Democrat.
Mr Abbott, who has served as governor since 2014, is running for a third term in a state where no Democrats have won a statewide election since 1994.
In a poll released last week by The morning news from Dallas and the University of Texas at Tyler, voters said they would be more likely to support Mr McConaughey than Mr O’Rourke by almost 2 to 1.
In a hypothetical three-way general election contest, Mr. Abbott was the favorite with 37 percent of the vote, followed by Mr. McConaughey with 27 percent and Mr. O’Rourke with 26 percent. Ten percent of voters in the poll wanted someone else.
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