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.”
We shall see.
But based on past performance, I think all the “I won’t vote for Trump if he does this” Trumpsters have about as much credibility as the “I’ll leave the US if so and so gets elected” crowd.
They make a lot of empty threats.
Cool. Glad you were joking and Tucker didn’t say what the headline stated. I didn’t even bother reading the article. :-)
What’s funny is that there’s Trump as President and then there’s this ceremonial VP who is like a fly on the wall that maybe goes to funerals and occasionally has lunch with the boss.
Don’t worry Tucker its not gonna happen.
“Don’t worry Tucker its not gonna happen”
Don’t worry, Tucker didn’t say this.
VP is going to have nothing to do with anything
What’s more is -for people who haven’t been paying attention- Trump will pick one ridiculously controversial person’s name after another yo distract.
Like a jar of red herrings in sour cream flinging them off the path.
Lara Trump put this name into the mix
Not even Tucker.
What’s Trump really doing in the meantime. His VP will mean nothing.
I would advocate against it as strongly as could.
Read it again - Tucker said it at AmFest.
Not that it matters, because Trump won’t pick Haley and Tucker knows that.
But Tucker did say it.
“ Read it again - Tucker said it at AmFest.
Not that it matters, because Trump won’t pick Haley and Tucker knows that.
But Tucker did say it.”
I did. You’re wasting my time
You readi it again. He did not say it.
From article you say you read:
“@Timcast: “Would you vote for Trump if he chose Nikki as VP?”
@TuckerCarlson: “I would not only not vote for that ticket, I would advocate against it as strongly as could.”
I’m wondering if it won’t be Stefanik. Noem may also be acceptable. If he REALLY wants to throw a wrench into things, RFK, Jr.
So would I.
You are the kook. Tucker makes you look like the pipsqueak neocon you are.
That’s not the same thing and you know it
Why didn’t the headline say “Tucker says he would advocate against Trump picking Haley”?
Because it’s not Tucker saying he wouldn’t vote for Trump which is what they want me to pretend it’s what he said. But I am not a gullible hate Trump reactionary so no sale
“Who can he pick who is not GOP-E?”
JD Vance or Rand Paul.
I prefer Paul.
“Kristi Noem”
She’s a lightweight.
Paul or Vance.
No one cares, Yucker. Voting for Trump regardless.
Yeah, Nimrata would be quite the poison pill to swallow.
me too ... I really hope he’s not that stupid ... he would get ZERO electoral votes in the south ...
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