What was that word again?
Oh yes! Deplorable.
Tucker Carlson in 2024? Republicans see a frontrunner.
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.
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... Carlson has denounced the Black Lives Matter movement and derided Republicans who have gone along with it.
“This may be a lot of things, this moment we are living through. But it is definitely not about black lives, and remember that when they come for you,” Mr. Carlson said in one 25-minute monologue on June 8 that has over 5.4 million views on YouTube. That lost him high-profile advertisers, including Disney, Papa John’s, and T-Mobile, whose chief executive tweeted “Bye-bye."
Carlson faced a similar advertiser exodus in 2018 after saying that immigrants make "our own country poorer and dirtier and more divided.”
Carlson emerged from the backlash apparently unchastened.
“The angry children you watched set fire to Wendy's and toppled statues and scream at you on television day after day are truly and utterly stupid,” he said on his show last week. And he has repeatedly pushed back on the idea that racism is systemic in the country. “Overall, this is the least racist country in the history of the world,” he said a few days earlier. “Millions of Africans want to move here. Many already have. Our last president was black. What are you talking about?”
His audience has rewarded him with blockbuster ratings.