{"id":120221,"date":"2025-09-05T07:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120221\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T07:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:07:07","slug":"conor-mcgregor-announces-presidential-bid-with-elon-musks-backing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120221\/","title":{"rendered":"Conor McGregor Announces Presidential Bid with Elon Musk\u2019s Backing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Citizens of Ireland, the time for real change is now! <\/p>\n<p>As President, I will not sign any bill in law until it goes back to the people first!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see my name on the ballot for the Presidency, I urge you to contact your local county councillors today and ask them to\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LGDCSGN9vr\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/LGDCSGN9vr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheNotoriousMMA\/status\/1963532107386372388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No one will fight harder for the people of Ireland than Conor McGregor!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1963635995133579767?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published 05 September 2025, 06:17 IST<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citizens of Ireland, the time for real change is now! As President, I will not sign any bill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,85002,85006,85001,85013,84999,85009,85008,786,85007,85012,85004,85010,85000,85011,85005,85003,785,85],"class_list":["post-120221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-conor-mcgregor-elon-musk-support","tag-conor-mcgregor-political-entry","tag-conor-mcgregor-politics","tag-conor-mcgregor-president-ireland","tag-conor-mcgregor-presidential-run","tag-conor-mcgregor-twitter-announcement","tag-elon-musk-backs-mcgregor","tag-fighting","tag-irish-elections-news","tag-irish-politics-2025-updates","tag-irish-presidency-candidates","tag-mcgregor-councillors-support","tag-mcgregor-ireland-elections-2025","tag-mcgregor-manifesto-ireland","tag-mcgregor-oireachtas-criticism","tag-mcgregor-presidential-campaign","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}