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.”
Somebody’s angry. 😂
Don’t tell me and others how I feel.
Don’t tell me what to say on this forum. Calm down, angry one.
Are we on your lawn?
Same. Nikki Haley is a poison pill of the Mitt Romney variety. An outright Democrat would be preferable.
I don’t think Rand Paul likes to self-censor and being that there are a lot of areas in which he and Trump don’t agree, he’d have to do a lot of self-censoring if he became Trump’s VP. It’s not a role he’d be comfortable with IMO, and he’s not someone Trump would or should want as his second in command. Trump needs someone who genuinely agrees with his vision 90% of the time.
But he picked Mike Pence and people went along with that. Is Haley really worse than Pence?
Trump says he isn’t ruling out Nikki Haley as a running mate when asked directly. “I’ve always gotten along with Nikki.”
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1735810767881146516
Kari Lake, who identifies as the governor of Arizona, does not rule out Donald Trump picking Nikki Haley as his vice presidential running mate.
https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1736943040562880518
Surely Trump won’t pick that lothesome woman!
Exactly. Somebody asked Tucker a “what if” question and he answered. The media’s just sliming it with their ridiculous spin.
Not to worry. Trump will not even consider Haley.
Nimrata Haley is an anchor baby. Neither one of her parents were American citizens when they plopped her onto American soil.
Nimrata is an Indian national. Let her run for president of India. /spit
The country’s in a different place now. In 2016, Trump likely felt he needed someone who could help him find common ground with the establishment. He was learning the lay of the land and had a Paul Ryan led House he had to deal with.
In Trump’s first term the establishment demonstrated that they were unwilling to work with him. On the contrary, they viewed him as a greater threat than they did, the Democrats. Lesson learned, and Trump is in a stronger position now than he was in 2016. The establishment are not as strong as they were, and the people support Trump to a greater degree now than they did then, so he has less need to work with the establishment and less need to accept one of their own as his running mate.
I’m going to step right up here and say this, if Trump picks Chris Christie as his running mate, I won’t vote for him.
(I figure that’s about as likely as “bird brain” to be selected).
For some reason, I don’t think President Trump picked Pence. Pence may have been picked for him.
over broken glass and through hoops of fire.
A no bet on DeSantis’ as POTUS is now $1567 to win $1.
““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.”
“Most of us would. “
My vote would be unaffected by who he picks as VP.
I would hope he would pick someone who would help him win but beyond that I really don’t know care who the VP candidate is. It’s noise in the grand scheme of things.
TRUMP HAS TO KNOW THAT NIKKI IS NOT NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
“ But he picked Mike Pence and people went along with that. Is Haley really worse than Pence?”
I will repeat
Trump is not going to hire any ‘keep your enemies close” hires his next time in the White House
Now. Tucker did not say what the headline says he said. To begin with
Pence- you do not know why Trumpp hired pence but pence was an enemy.
Haley will it be considered because in his second term Trump will not have to surround himself with democrats who call themselves republicans
He won’t be wiring on getting elected for another term.
“Most of us would. “
“My vote would be unaffected by who he picks as Vp”
mine would too. I was kidding. And Tuckers would too. He never said what the headline said
‘I would hope he would pick someone who would help him win but beyond that I really don’t know care who the VP candidate is. It’s noise in the grand scheme of things.’
Trump is ahead 60 points in the Republican race and he will beat any dope the democrats put up
His VP won’t matter
Who doesn’t know this?
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