Posted on 12/19/2023 11:36:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Tucker Carlson said he will not vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 general election if he chooses Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley as his running mate.
Carlson first expressed support for Trump 2024 on Roseanne Barr’s podcast in November. He claimed to have “always agreed with Trump’s policies” but admitted that he only became an “active Trump supporter when they raided Mar-a-Lago.”
Tucker Carlson tells Roseanne Barr that he became a Trump supporter the day the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago:
"I've always agreed with Trump's policies. I became an active Trump supporter when they raided Mar-A-Lago last summer. That can't stand. I agree with Trump on a lot but even… pic.twitter.com/sq4mfnwAst— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) November 30, 2023
The former Fox News host’s newfound support for the candidate leading primary and general polls, he promised this week during a live recording of “Timcast IRL” at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2023, will be threatened if Trump chooses the wrong running mate.
“Would you vote for Trump if he chose Nikki as VP?” Host Tim Pool asked
The question stems from Lara Trump’s refusal during a TV interview earlier this week to dismiss Haley as a VP prospect.
“I would not only not vote for that ticket, I would advocate against it as strongly as I could,” Carlson told the AmFest audience, receiving several shocked “wows” from his fellow panelists.
According to Carlson, adding Haley to the Trump ballot would be “poison” to his campaign.
“I mean, here’s someone who’s actively opposed to the interests of the country I grew up in, who endorsed the BLM riots, and who is not left, but is neoliberal in the darkest, most — speaking of nihilist — nihilistic way, and has no real popular supporters, is a creature of the oligarchs,” Carlson explained. “So yeah, that would be reason to oppose the ticket.”
When Pool asked once again if “even Trump-Haley is a no-go?” Carlson doubled down.
“I just can’t imagine a world where that could happen,” he said. “That would be so crazy. Anything could happen of course, but picking Nikki Haley, who’s utterly treacherous and utterly dismissive of like, the interest of Americans, yeah.”
Another panelist suggested that Trump would “get assassinated immediately.” His suggestion that the deep state would be willing to knock off Trump to install Haley as president recalls Carlson’s exchange with the former president in August, in which Carlson mused that “Indictment is not working … do they have to kill you now?”
Pool asked his guests who they thought Trump should pick as a running mate. Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk recommended Carlson.
“I don’t think I’d be that great at it,” Carlson said.
Instead, he suggested Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy would make a good choice because he has “gotten much more sincere.”
“I watch him with Nikki Haley and I’m like, this is a guy who’s very offended by her views, like for real,” Carlson concluded. “He’s not attacking her because she’s a woman, he’s attacking her because he actually thinks her views are terrible for the country he lives in. And I love that.”
Most of us would. No big revelation
Highly unlikely.
I wouldn’t worry, this will not happen.
That was an excellent group conversation with Tucker, Charlie Kirk, and another of conservatives. They were discussing topics like UFOs (Tucker seems to think they are spiritual), AI, voter fraud.
Ain’t gonna happen
I think she was a real possibility before she became a candidate.
She sounds like she is speaking with her jaws wired shut. She is swamp queen incompetent but I’ll still vote for anyone against Biden.
Don’t think there is much chance of President Trump picking someone he calls, “Bird Brain” for VP.
I wondered about who Trump would pick as a running mate.
Who can he pick, who would be able to move forward with the Trump agenda, and be an heir apparent for 2028 and Beyond?
Who would be a strong conservative and not be a RINO type?
Who can he pick who is not GOP-E?
Some have speculated he could think outside the box and not pick a career politician. After all Trump himself was not a career politician. Maybe he would think outside the box and find someone who is not coming from the world of Republican politics.
“Most of us would. No big revelation”
I guess I was supposed to add- never going to happen
It would never happen.
Trump btw is going to be done signing on the ‘keep your enemies close’ appointments. This is going to look a whole lot different
Nothing to worry about. If Trump would pick her he might as well pick Romney and you know he won’t do that.
I used to love watching TC but lately don’t watch anything on tv. From what I read on FR, Tucker’s morphing into some sort of post-Tucker.
My bet is he’s going to pick Kristi Noem. She’s got the gravitas to step in and govern if Trump was somehow incapacitated.
Ok. I read the article.
Tucker does not say that in the interview nor anywhere else
Hard no on Haley
I wouldn’t go that far. But I certainly wouldn’t vote for her if she is the nominee.
If Trump wants a female VP than go with Huckabee or Noam.
I’m not voting against Trump and I don’t care who he picks for vice president and Tucker is a jerk.
Let him lead a campaign against Donald Trump just what we don’t need.
I tried to warn people that Tucker is a kook on certain issues.
Not just on Ukraine, on our entire foreign commitments.
And on ufos.
And on Kanye West.
We don’t need people telling us to vote against Trump for God’s sake that’s outrageous.
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