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On a recent podcast, Tucker Carlson said "there's no chance I would support the Republican Party." We'll believe it on Nov. 4 if he sticks to it. As a Swanson frozen foods trust baby and lifelong Republican, we can't imagine Carlson supporting any Democrat. So is he going to tell people not to vote? We doubt it. He could tell them to vote for the Libertarian Party candidate. If LP candidates suddenly got a lot of votes, that would send a message while also hurting the Republicans. He has apologized for telling people to vote for Donald Trump in 2024, though.
Carlson has gone on criticizing the war in Iran and also Republicans in general. He says they make decisions based on what's best for some company, what's best for Israel, and what's best for the donors. He called that unacceptable, treasonous, and immoral.
Carlson could conceivably run for president in 2028, but getting on the ballot as an independent in all the states is tough. Very tough. He could run in the Republican primaries, which would be easy, or he could ask for the Libertarian Party nomination, which would be very easy. He denies having any presidential ambitions, but they all say that until they say: "I didn't want to run, but so many people told me I had to run that I decided to follow the will of the people."
He already stated his non-platform. He said: "[The system] is not producing impressive people. And every empire is the same in this one regard. When its system fails to produce a leadership class capable of running this huge thing that the ancestors built, then it collapses. And so we need to fix that, like immediately. And the first thing to do is stop discriminating against white men. They built all of this in the first place. They have a pretty good track record. So knock it off. Give them a fair shot." So he will be the white men's grievance candidate. That probably wouldn't be enough to get the Republican nomination, but as an independent candidate or LP candidate, he could pull enough votes from the Republican ticket to doom it. (V)