After teasing a potential 2018 Senate bid for several months, Kid Rock admitted in an interview Tuesday (October 24) that the whole campaign was just a ploy to drum up publicity for his new album, Sweet Southern Sugar, out November 3.

This being 2017, people on the Internet had opinions. Many folks breathed a collective sigh of relief upon learning the man who once draped himself in an American flag poncho on live TV would not be making a legitimate run for office.

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