“Glenn Jacobs said Thursday night that he would prefer not to use pro-wrestling analogies during his campaign for mayor of Knox County, Tenn.
“But after the man better known as WWE wrestler Kane soundly defeated his Democratic opponent at the polls, he gladly crammed a few of them into his remarks.
““This professional wrestler got into a no-holds-barred, last-man-standing match, and when the bell rung, he was victorious,” Jacobs told supporters at his watch party, per the Knoxville News Sentinel. “We were victorious.”
“Jacobs, a Republican who leans libertarian, thumped Democrat Linda Haney by 32 percentage points in the race for mayor, which in Knox County is akin to county executive.
“It was a far more convincing win than in May’s Republican primary, when Jacobs defeated Knox County Commissioner Brad Anders by a mere 23 votes.”
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