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.”
Me too.
Since Trump is not a Republican in any meaningful sense (thank God), he shouldn’t be limited in his choices in the unlikely event he is allowed to claim the RNC’s nomination.
When she worked for his administration she was below sub-par/I see her as another turncoat.
What are you talking about ?
You Trump haters are so off the mark
You think we are a mob like you democrats are. No. Most Trump supporters know he won’t hire her but if he did we’d trust that he would do so for good reason. Of course I would vote for him. And Tucker never said this.
First place it’s a joke bits Long Island humor
Second tucker never even said it and I knew that before reading the article
Third if Trump would hire on a woman he refers to as bird brain it would indicate he’s losing his mind
> I wondered about who Trump would pick as a running mate. <
The future is now. I would hope that Trump picks as VP the person who will most help him get elected in 2024. It is interesting to think of an heir apparent, and 2028. But if the Democrats cheat their way to a 2024 win, nothing past that year will matter.
It is difficult to predict who he’ll pick, but it won’t be her.
Im not sure I would go that far, but I would be extremely disappointed.
I don’t think Trump will select NimRATa as his running mate.
That’s BS. After some grumbling the tribe will march to the polls to devoutly vote for him.
Slow news week I guess. Trump is not going to pick Haley.
“ I’m not voting against Trump and I don’t care who he picks for vice president and Tucker is a jerk.”
Oy vey. Tucker didn’t say this. It is a bs headline. You don’t know by now they took him out of context?
2- of course ticker will vote for Trump no matter what
Does one have to be from Queens, hang out with someone from Wueens to get exaggeration humor?
Kari Lake would help the ticket, IMHO.
I will not vote for Trump if he picks El Chapo for VP.
Yeah her voting record in Congress showed she’s pure MAGA. /s
I don't see The Donald overlooking this.
“ don’t think Trump will select NimRATa as his running mate.”
Of course he’s not.
It’s good Tucker came out to preemptory put the kibosh on that idea just in case Trump was stupid enough to consider her.
I would stay home, like I did when that sorry POS Paul Ryan was on the ticket.
What about Rand Paul? I like him.
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