Tucker Carlson 2024? The GOP is buzzing

[brooklynite]

Politico

Tucker Carlson’s audience is booming — and so is chatter that the popular Fox News host will parlay his TV perch into a run for president in 2024.

Republican strategists, conservative commentators, and former Trump campaign and administration officials are buzzing about Carlson as the next-generation leader of Donald Trump’s movement — with many believing he would be an immediate frontrunner in a Republican primary.

“He’s a talented communicator with a massive platform. I think if he runs he’d be formidable,” said Luke Thompson, a Republican strategist who worked for Jeb Bush’s super PAC in 2016.

While practically every Republican eyeing a 2024 presidential run is professing loyalty to Trump the person, Carlson has become perhaps the highest-profile proponent of “Trumpism” — a blend of anti-immigrant nationalism, economic populism and America First isolationism that he articulates unapologetically and with some snark. At the same time, he's shown a rare willingness among Republicans to bluntly criticize Trump when he believes the president is straying from that ideology.

[Mike 03]

1. Over my dead body

[tblue37]

2. We don't need another amateur, but Republicans don't understand that president should not be an

entry level job.

[Sanity Claws]

3. Buzzing? Sounds more like vultures circling over the

soon-to-be corpse of the Republican Party.

Ta-ta GOP.

[Hortensis]

22. Carlson's circling the bowl. Wonder if he imagines

himself going to Trump TV after Fox? If so, anything that put him in the news and also presented himself as a loyalist to the trumpsters they need to keep hooked would be an advertisement.

[lpbk2713]

4. That guy's a joke. Can they really take him that seriously?

But that's probably the best they can do.

[SWBTATTReg]

16. Ditto. He's worse than a joke, a bad joke. I can't stand the sight of this gutter mouth...

and worthless news hack. But, if the gop scumbags feel like CT is the best that they can come up with, go ahead, and be idiots again. Might as well keep the reputation going that the candidates you pick have to be mentally challenged, morally deprived, and have a gutter mouth. CT fits the ticket!

[empedocles]

5. Should dominate the 'con primaries with the lower 20+%.

TC's broader appeal is at least, 'untested'.



[The plus side is, if things are complicated on the Dem side, obvious TC scumbucket should provide some comfort for Dems].

[tanyev]

6. Really? America's already declined to vote for him.

Out after the first round.

[Vogon_Glory]

7. If Tucker runs, Democrats could do far worse than

to remind voters of all the bad advice Faux Noise gave Donnie and that Donnie acted on. Any Democrat Worth his or her salt could remind voters that we were governed by the idiots from Fox and Friends and the R candidate comes out the starting gate with a limp.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. More NAZI.

Guy is predictable.

[Mike Nelson]

9. Well...

... post-Crooked Donald, I wouldn't think the Republicans would pick a younger clone to lose more votes... but they are weird!

[Shermann]

10. His pretzel logic is worse than Trump's

Trump is lazy and mostly sticks to the repeated assertion fallacies.

Carlson works at it a lot harder and commits every logical fallacy in the book. He really runs the gamut.

[Javaman]

11. The desperate flailings of a dying party

They only have racists, toadies and morons

[Squinch]

12. Man. They just never learn, do they?

[smirkymonkey]

13. NO.

Just no.

[Shermann]

14. I've never seen him in a fair debate

He backs up his pretzel logic with mostly like-minded guests on his show.

Rarely do you see him debate in good faith with an adversary on his level. He's clever, I'll give him that. But he seems to quickly resort to underhanded tactics in those scenarios.

[edhopper]

15. Please proceed

[Hortensis]

20. :) Yes. Seriously, his demo is going to be hit harder than most

before this is over. There's almost no talk so far of what the demands for payment of medical bills from 11 days (average) of hospitalization, left after standard insurance pays, look like in multiple stacks on the breakfast table. Or for some the little stack for a spouse's funeral. Etcetera.

I almost hope he'd run, but he's hemorrhaging yet more sponsors this BLM summer, and I really don't see someone too dirty for even Disney as a serious candidate.

[Sapient Donkey]

17. If somehow Trump was convinced to throw in the towel, I wouldn't mind seeing Tucker step up

He is basically Trump, but with the ability to speak in full sentences. Many of the Never Trumpers would simply convert to Never Tuckers. Not so sure how things go if they picked a less Trumpian person in such a situation. In the event that a more traditional republican is chosen, we would then have to hope that some Trumpers would decided to either do a protest vote or sit out to cancel out the newly earned never trumper votes.

[Bettie]

18. If he's their "best and brightest"

there is a HUGE problem for them.

[underpants]

19. Tucker looks like a confused Muppet

All the time

[thucythucy]

21. Is he the guy who said water boarding wasn't torture

and would be willing to be water boarded on the air to prove it, and then chickened out?

I'll Google this if I have to, but thought someone might know off hand.

Frankly, I sometimes get these RWNJ blowhards confused. Maybe O'Reilly? No, I think it was Tucker.

[Volaris]

26. No pretty sure that was hannity, not TC.

[JHB]

27. That was Hannity, though the confusion is understandable

They're both a couple of hacks stirring shit for the power trip. Neither one of them needs the money.

[Doremus]

23. ...says a guy who went all-in for Jeb Bush?

Sounds like an opinion you can trust.

[HotTeaBag]

24. He's more than welcome to run, but he better hope that Trump doesn't win

a second term because if he does, a Republican won't be elected President for a generation.

[LiberalFighter]

25. Says the GOP strategist that helped lose Jeb Bush's campaign.

[yellowcanine]

28. Shows the state of the GOP that this is their wet dream.

[writes3000]

29. Anyone else wonder if this story was planted by Never Trumpers?

This will make the Orange Menace turn on Carlson and his advice.

[themaguffin]

30. He's a shock jock entertainer. He's in it for the money.

[kimbutgar]

31. He too much of an obvious weasel

MF45 was the ultimate con man for the stupid people. Tucker is jerk outright.

[lettucebe]

32. Hahahahaha, uh, sure

[TlalocW]

33. Uh, do they actually think he's going to do well in the debates

When he can't control the volume button?

There's an easy way to head this off. Run Jon Stewart as a joke candidate and have him counter everything Tucker says.

TlalocW