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Fox News star Tucker Carlson flirts with presidential run in Iowa speech
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| July 15 2022
| Tom LoBianco
Posted on 07/17/2022 12:59:51 PM PDT by rintintin
Tucker Carlson, the top-rated Fox News host who has built a following pushing conspiracy theories and lighting into the culture wars, on Friday flirted with a presidential run in his speech to a large gathering of Christian conservative voters in Des Moines, Iowa.
Carlson used the event to blast transgender athletes, high energy prices (and wind turbines), make a glancing mention to Jan. 6 (an issue which hasn’t engaged voters on the right), before ultimately pivoting to an attack on corporate America. The speech ultimately focused on the kind of pocketbook issues that have been engaging many voters this year, themes very familiar to his large cable audience.
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Trump needs a primary challenger from the MAGA wing of the party, to keep his feet to the fire. In his 2020 reelection campaign he didn’t sound like a MAGA candidate. He spent a lot of time bragging about letting felons out of prison, and he blasted Biden for being “too tough” on drug offenders in his crime bill back in the 80s. Unlike 2016, Trump no longer talked about the wall,?infrastructure, taxing hedge fund billionaires, or bringing factories back from low-wage third world countries. Instead, he bragged about signing the McConnell-Ryan tax cuts for big, woke corporations. He also boasted about the vaccines. And you’re surprised he didn’t win like he won in 2016 - when he no longer sounded like the MAGA candidate of 2016?
Trump needs a MAGA challenger to make sure he stops straying from MAGA
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posted on
07/17/2022 12:59:51 PM PDT
by
rintintin
To: rintintin
Who is the yahoo at Yahoo who wrote this trash ?
The oldest of all socialist ploys:
Divide, and conquer.
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posted on
07/17/2022 1:02:25 PM PDT
by
BrexitBen
To: rintintin
To: rintintin
Unlike 2016, Trump no longer talked about the wall,?infrastructure, taxing hedge fund billionaires, or bringing factories back from low-wage third world countries. Instead, he bragged about signing the McConnell-Ryan tax cuts for big, woke corporations. He also boasted about the vaccines. And you’re surprised he didn’t win like he won in 2016 - when he no longer sounded like the MAGA candidate of 2016? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, nor is it true. None of it.
To: Republican Wildcat
Doubtful that he believes he can win.
He would use the platform to push his message, increase viewership of his show, and sell books.
Nothing wrong with that.
To: BrexitBen
Yahoo as a news source is choosing very badly
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posted on
07/17/2022 1:05:55 PM PDT
by
iamgalt
To: rintintin
Careful, your true colors are showing. And its not pretty.
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posted on
07/17/2022 1:07:18 PM PDT
by
JoSixChip
(2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
To: rintintin
Essentially, Trump listened to Mr and Mrs Ivanka for his 2020 run. If he gets back in the WH in 2024, I hope he leaves those two in NY where they fit in just fine with all the liberals.
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posted on
07/17/2022 1:07:26 PM PDT
by
euram
To: iamgalt
Yahoo as a news source is choosing very badlyI wouldn’t really consider Yahoo a reliable news source.
To: rintintin
“He has the role that Rush Limbaugh had in the ’90s and he’s very aware of it,” Schweppe said. “Tucker is setting the terms of ’24 right now, he is the moderator. He’ll be hugely influential in terms of setting the topics. He has the bully pulpit.”
And that's exactly where he's going to stay. Tucker is going to keep the culture war alive, and any candidate who "gets it" will benefit. He loses influence if he tries to become the candidate himself.
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posted on
07/17/2022 1:07:45 PM PDT
by
absalom01
(You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
To: Republican Wildcat
Delusions of grandeur. (1) It's Yahoo; and
(2) Nothing in the article supports the title.
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posted on
07/17/2022 1:08:16 PM PDT
by
KevinB
(''...and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
To: rintintin
Tucker would make a good Trump administration Spokesperson. Would love to see him go head to head with Jim Acosta.
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posted on
07/17/2022 1:08:34 PM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Joe Biden, VOTUS. Vegetable of the United States.)
To: rintintin
Trump needs a primary challenger from the MAGA wing of the party, to keep his feet to the fire.More of your BS again. This is ridiculous. Trump will announce soon hopefully, and no one will challenge him.
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posted on
07/17/2022 1:09:28 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: JoSixChip
Careful, your true colors are showing. And its not pretty.Yellow.
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posted on
07/17/2022 1:10:27 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: rintintin
I used to flirt at parties, but the First lady didn’t like that.
I’m okay now.
5.56mm
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posted on
07/17/2022 1:11:29 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
(Quid Pro Joe and the Ho got to go.)
To: rintintin
Outside of the FoxNews viewership, most people have no idea who Carlson is.
He might manage 5%.
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posted on
07/17/2022 1:11:58 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: rintintin
Did you know I'm running for President, too?
I'm gonna out-Pat Paulson by acting like him. LOL, my platform will revolve around raising the minimum wage to $100, with the theme, "No More Pikers!"
I'm working on some other ideas, if only to throw Democrat policies back in their faces, like shutting down windmills and solar grids, because of all the birds they're killing.
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posted on
07/17/2022 1:12:05 PM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
To: rintintin
Tucker and Gutfell, like most Liberaltarians, would agree to vote for Stalin if given a big sack of dope to smoke with their queer boyfriend.
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posted on
07/17/2022 1:12:45 PM PDT
by
Beagle8U
("Per DNC instructions...Joy Reid is busy packing marbles up her @$$.")
To: Republican Wildcat
I read the article and it’s a LIE.
Carlson said nothing of the kind. The author cited a source who thinks Carlson’s running. What he is saying is that carlson is holding the Rush Limbaugh position, the bully pulpit. And that Carlson is setting the conversation for the 24 election. On that I will agree.
These ‘journalists’ always bury the lead.
It’s kind of criminal.
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posted on
07/17/2022 1:12:49 PM PDT
by
Samurai_Jack
(This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
To: absalom01
“And that’s exactly where he’s going to stay. Tucker is going to keep the culture war alive, and any candidate who “gets it” will benefit. He loses influence if he tries to become the candidate himself.”
That is exactly my opinion and much better put that I could.
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posted on
07/17/2022 1:12:54 PM PDT
by
Tupelo
(PINO: President In Name Only)
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