{"id":27686,"date":"2020-08-25T12:59:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T09:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=27686"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:33:04","slug":"rapper-akon-becomes-chief-strategist-for-brock-pierces-presidential-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/rapper-akon-becomes-chief-strategist-for-brock-pierces-presidential-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Akon Becomes Chief Strategist for Brock Pierce&#8217;s Presidential Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">American rapper <\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">and entrepreneur Akon (<\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Akon) has joined the team <\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">of a US presidential candidate, <\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">a veteran of the Bitcoin industry, venture investor Brock Pierce<\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">. The Grammy-nominated artist and crypto enthusiast will become Pierce&#8217;s campaign chief strategist. According to<\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/cheddar.com\/media\/exclusive-musician-akon-joins-crypto-investor-brock-pierces-presidential-campaign\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"> <span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Cheddar<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Pierce, explaining the reason for the choice, cited Akon&#8217;s success as a singer, entrepreneur and philanthropist in creating<\/span> <span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">\u00abthe world&#8217;s first crypto-city\u00bb<\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Brock Pierce&#8217;s campaign currently runs in eight states and Washington, DC, with plans to expand into new territories. In scale, it surpasses the campaigns of other independent presidential candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Brock Pierce<\/span> <span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">stated<\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> that he intends to run in the upcoming U.S. presidential election in July this year. According to the site brockpierce2020.com, the campaign operates under the slogan \u00abLeadership. Experience. Values\u00bb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Pierce seeks to end the hegemony of the political establishment in the form of a two-party system and unite America for all Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier, Forklog published <\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">a piece<\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> on the race for the U.S. presidency by cryptocurrency supporters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American rapper and entrepreneur Akon has joined Brock Pierce&#8217;s presidential campaign team. The Grammy-nominated artist and crypto enthusiast will become Pierce&#8217;s campaign chief strategist. Cheddar reported this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[985,1902,1280,26],"class_list":["post-27686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-brock-pierce","tag-eikon","tag-elections","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"14","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27687,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27686\/revisions\/27687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}