Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker
Kid Rock—the goofy sobriquet of Robert James Ritchie, the forty-seven-year-old rapping rock star from Detroit—has been an inscrutable presence on the American political scene for several years now, and on Wednesday afternoon he appeared to announce that he’s running for a U.S. Senate seat in 2018, presumably against Debbie Stabenow, a Democratic senator from Michigan, who is up for reëlection next year. On Twitter, he vouched for the authenticity of a Web site, which features a photograph of him seated next to a stuffed buck, a trophy case, a framed replica of the…
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