Wired Keyboard keeps randomly pushing the P button, even when unplugged.

Hello mac community,
I have owned a imac i5 27" for just over a year and it has just starting always automatically pushing the P button then capslock p button, then P again. I have tried both restarts the Vram I think and the other restart. Which was unplugging the power for 15 or more seconds then plugging back in, the other one was the hold command p and r and the home button i think. It restarted then restarted again, but it is still doing the same thing. I even restarted with the keyboard unplugged and it is still doing it. I have a wired keyboard not bluetooth.
Thanks in advance

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