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‘Move’: Tucker Carlson Makes Eyebrow-Raising Comment On His Presidential Aspirations
Will he or won’t he? That’s the question fans of Tucker Carlson seem to be asking these days about his presidential ambitions, and now the former Fox News host and conservative media mogul has given one of the clearest indications yet about which way he is leaning.
An apparently offhand remark about his future came while Carlson sat with conservative influencer Jason Whitlock for an interview where the two discussed if moving to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has ever seriously crossed Carlson’s mind.
“This is great presidential prep,” Whitlock said about Carlson’s sojourn to Russia last year, where he interviewed President Vladimir Putin. “This says to me someone who could be president of the United States.” An intimate crowd of supporters cheered the notion.
“Does that ever cross your mind?” he asked his guest.
Carlson quickly responded, “Literally not for one second. I couldn’t get elected to an empty Congressional seat in an uncontested election in North Dakota. I am not suited for that. My brain doesn’t work that way.”
Since being ousted by Fox News executives after the 2020 election, Carlson has accomplished what few in his position have done: building his own brand to be bigger and more successful than the one he left behind, at least for himself.
Today, Carlson runs his own media network and commands millions of views on social media. Many of the Fox staffers who worked with him for years left the safety of their Manhattan studio to join his venture, literally building a studio from scratch in the woods of Maine, where Carlson calls home.
Unlike CNN’s Don Lemon or ABC’s Matt Lauer, who were fired for sexual misconduct claims, Carlson was dismissed by Fox as part of its settlement with Dominion Voting Systems after the ballot machine builder demanded he be terminated for allegedly claiming their technology cost President Donald Trump the 2020 election. He vehemently denied saying anything defamatory or inaccurate.
His sentiment about the pervasiveness of election fraud is in tune with the base of the GOP, which will soon begin the soul-wrenching process of seeking out a standard bearer as President Trump finishes his second and final term. Vice President J.D. Vance is seen as the most likely successor, including by Carlson himself, but his fans are hoping that there’s an outside chance he won’t close the door on his own run.
“If I was the sort of person who looked in the mirror and said out of three hundred and fifty million Americans, I’m the most qualified to lead, I hope my wife would shoot me and make it look like an accident,” he joked to laughter from the studio crowd. “‘Cause I just find that so disgusting!”
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