Oh, jeez. Politico says Republicans are "buzzing" about Tucker Carlson running for president in 2024

[highplainsdem]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/02/tucker-carlson-2024-republicans-348334

Tucker Carlson’s audience is booming — and so is chatter that the popular Fox News host will parlay his TV perch into a run for president in 2024.

Republican strategists, conservative commentators, and former Trump campaign and administration officials are buzzing about Carlson as the next-generation leader of Donald Trump’s movement — with many believing he would be an immediate frontrunner in a Republican primary.

“He’s a talented communicator with a massive platform. I think if he runs he’d be formidable,” said Luke Thompson, a Republican strategist who worked for Jeb Bush’s super PAC in 2016.

While practically every Republican eyeing a 2024 presidential run is professing loyalty to Trump the person, Carlson has become perhaps the highest-profile proponent of “Trumpism” — a blend of anti-immigrant nationalism, economic populism and America First isolationism that he articulates unapologetically and with some snark. At the same time, he's shown a rare willingness among Republicans to bluntly criticize Trump when he believes the president is straying from that ideology.

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[Renew Deal]

1. I think it's a great idea

[applegrove]

8. I know eh? I remember when he was on CNN they gave him a chance

after they cancelled his show with Begala, they gave him a chance to do regular news. He didn't know how foreign aid worked.

[obamanut2012]

46. omg I forgot about that

[Polybius]

42. That's what I said about Trump

I was cracking up and laughing at him when he announced, and cheering his every primary win. I though for sure how easy it would be to beat him, and look at what’s happened.

I don’t doubt for one minute that Tucker could win the nomination in 2024.

[Nevilledog]

2. Do it! Do it! I'll hold your lite beer.

[Funtatlaguy]

3. Oh yes and make Sean or Laura his Veep.

[Laelth]

4. LOL. Now I KNOW they're desperate. n/t

-Laelth

[dweller]

5. carry fn on

didn't i read today fatnixon was calling bow tie boy asking
'what do i do... what do i do' ??

carry fn on ..

✌🏼

[tavernier]

6. Thanks for this!!

I like ending my day with a good laugh!

[Archetypist]

7. Please proceed.

[NNadir]

9. I expect the Republican base to be dead in 2024.

They're mostly senile old farts of my generation, whose fathers fought the Nazis so they could evade the draft and grow up to be Nazis, and...

...they're afraid that masks will degrade their freedumb in a Pandemic.

Trump republicans will consist entirely of drooling psychopaths with deteriorating brain tissue in 2024, much the same as they are now, except that more of them are still alive and won't be in 2024.

[hatrack]

23. Which reminds me of a recent Google search . . .

I typed in the words "How many Tru-" and the autocomplete filled with "-mp voters will die by 2020?"

Not sure about great minds thinking alike, but certainly many minds are thinking alike . . .

[FM123]

10. Oh my gosh, I am laughing so hard!

Thanks for the chuckle

[NRaleighLiberal]

11. run, fucker, run! (whoops...tucker. or not!)

[smirkymonkey]

12. Bwahahahaha!

They are really scraping!

[GulfCoast66]

13. I love the smell of desperation in the morning.

[Thunderbeast]

14. Didn't he once have a show on PBS?

During the Reagan-Bush years for balance after Bill Moyers.

[budkin]

15. After Trump won, anybody can win

Don't count anyone out at this point I say. Tucker is a Trumpist but younger and can actually articulate things.

[Me.]

16. PLease Do Tucker

though I thought the plan was for a trump dynasty and that jr and the princess are fighting over who's going next.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

17. Trump mostly repeated stuff from Fox News...

... but now the cultists have graduated to wanting the actual sources of the misinformation.

[Hoyt]

18. I also laughed when trump announced, but think Carlson would get his ass kicked.

[sheshe2]

19. This guy?

[Marie Marie]

22. He always looks befuddled, probably because he always is.

[sheshe2]

26. Psst.

Me thinks it is a Republican thing. Reminds me of dotard.
Unfocused gaze, mouth hanging open just short of drooling and speaking in tongues.

[MontanaMama]

31. I was going to say

“Resisting Fuck Face”. Only because I had a cocktail tonight and I’ve got nothing else...

[sheshe2]

34. ;)

[Under The Radar]

20. It's ok, there are hundreds of hours of footage of Tucker lying

[Arkansas Granny]

21. He'll have to fight Tom Cotton for that spot.

[rsdsharp]

24. Rule number 1 in running for office:

Don’t have a face people want to punch.

Rule number 2: Don’t be a total dick.

[Baked Potato]

25. Run, Tucker, run! Start burnishing your bonafides now, before it's too late!

[NYC Liberal]

27. If the worst happens and Biden loses, and this douche runs in 2024...

Let’s run Jon Stewart. He made mincemeat of him once and he could do it again. And he would be competent.

[still_one]

36. If trump gets another four years the country is finished

[ProcureTheReceptacle]

39. Our institutions would be incredibly damaged but I wouldn't say "finished"

[still_one]

44. The S.C., and entire judicial branch Will open the flood gates to unlimited executive branch power

The seeds for that process have already been planted

[Polybius]

48. There's no proof that RGB wouldn't last another four years

People doubted she would last under Trump, but she always proves them wrong. She's tough.

[still_one]

50. That isn't the point. There are 4 justices over 70. Also, RBG is 87, and has had multiple medical

conditions. If trump gets another 4 years, it’s over

[ibegurpard]

28. Funny?

Did anyone ever think Donald Trump could be president?

[Polybius]

43. This

I don’t doubt for one minute that he could get the Republican nomination over Pence or Hailey.

[captain queeg]

29. Buzzing? They are down right shit faced.

[Miguelito Loveless]

30. Ok, we'll run Jon Stewart

[highplainsdem]

47. LOL!

[canetoad]

32. Jeez

Have they gone off Ivankuous?

[Azathoth]

33. Carlson used to be a generic third-string far right pundit

And that was all he was until he moved into O'Reilly's time slot. O'Reilly also happened go be the "most watched show on cable news."

One day these troglodytes will realize it's the network and time slot that's popular, not the particular host. You could put any far right pundit there and they would automatically have huge ratings because right-wingers watch no other news channels during primetime.

[still_one]

35. President of what?

[ProcureTheReceptacle]

37. .

[gratuitous]

38. God doesn't love me that much

[ProcureTheReceptacle]

40. Just what we need, more populism.

That's sarcasm if that wasn't clear.

[liberaltrucker]

41. Hmmm...Tucker debating VP Rice or Harris.

[ProfessorGAC]

45. In Other Words...

...they're already writing off 2024.

[SoonerPride]

49. Hahahahaha

Omg. Please do.

We will win 45 states.