Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson says he’s off Donald Trump’s bandwagon if the former president, as the 2024 Republican nominee, picks GOP rival Nikki Haley as a running mate.
Carlson made the comments during an interview earlier this week with podcaster Tim Pool at Turning Point USA’s “AmericaFest” event. Pool asked Carlson if he’d stick with Trump if he selected Haley as his vice presidential candidate — something Trump recently indicated he was open to.
Trump, whose campaign once ridiculed Haley as a “birdbrain,” did not rule out selecting Haley when questioned about it. The issue came up last week when his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, suggested Haley as Trump’s VP choice.
Asked in a subsequent interview, President Trump said it was “unlikely” he would choose Haley, if he becomes the nominee. But he did not rule it out.
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For her part, Haley said she would not accept the role as Trump’s veep choice. “I don’t play for second,” Haley told the Christian Broadcast Network on Tuesday. “I don’t know what more I can say than to get them to understand that.”
But Carlson made it clear that he would abandon Trump if he somehow picked Haley.
“I would not only not vote for that ticket, I would advocate against it as strongly as I could,” Carlson replied. “That’s just poison.”
“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 nihilistic way, and has no real popular support, is a creature of the oligarchs,” Carlson added, according to the website Conservative Brief.
“So yeah, that would be– that would be reason to oppose the ticket.”
In additional comments, as reported by Newsweek, Carlson told Pool, “That would be so crazy. Anything could happen, of course, but picking Nikki Haley, who’s utterly treacherous and utterly dismissive of the interest of Americans” made supporting a Trump-Haley ticket a “no” for him, Carlson said.
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