Former President and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump said he would consider choosing former Fox News host Tucker Carlson as his vice president (VP) for the 2024 election.
“I like Tucker a lot; I guess I would, I think I’d say I would.” Trump said in response to whether he’d choose Carlson as his running mate. “I think I’d say I would, because he’s got great common sense.”
Trump was on the “Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show” on Nov. 8 when he made the comments. Speaking to them, Trump said: “You know, when they say that you guys are conservative, or I’m conservative — it’s not that we’re conservative, we have common sense. We want to have safe borders. We want to have a wall, because walls work.”
President Trump tells @ClayTravis and @BuckSexton he'll consider @TuckerCarlson for VP: "I like Tucker a lot. I guess I would consider him. He’s got great common sense."
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— The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show (@clayandbuck) November 8, 2023
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Trump highlighted his friendly relationship with Tucker Carlson, who was widely seen as a Trump-adjacent media figure opposed to the Republican establishment during Trump’s first term as President.
“Well first of all, you know, I did my first you could call it “counter-programming” but I won’t call it that, but Tucker wanted to do an interview during the first debate,” Trump recalled, referring to his appearance on Tucker Carlon’s X show in August.
“We broke every record in history. I think it hit over 300 million people.” (This number has been disputed due to the ways views are counted on X compared to television).
Trump made fun of the 2024 Republican primary debates that he has been routinely skipping. He claimed the first debate got “the lowest audience in the history of presidential debates.” He mocked the debate that was to occur that night, saying “I don’t even talk about it!”
Trump previously said he “liked the concept” of choosing a female vice president, but said “we’re going to pick the best person” regardless of gender.
When Fox News was being sued for defamation by Dominion Voting Systems (which partially contributed to Tucker’s firing), text messages from Tucker were brought up in court that revealed him expressing his distaste for Trump. In the texts, Carlson was complaining in private about the Trump campaign sending him false information regarding voter fraud which he read on air.
In the heat of the moment, Carlson at the time said he hates Trump “passionately” and “truly can’t wait” until he can ignore Trump for good. Carlson was “enraged” by the release of the texts and has since walked them back: “I love Trump, like, as a person,” he said on WABC radio in March 2023.
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