from NBC
Longtime conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said on a podcast that “there’s no chance I would support the Republican Party” ahead of the November midterm elections,
dismissing the political affiliation he has defended as a pundit for
decades, including as one of Fox News Channel’s most popular hosts.
“Not gonna support the
Democratic Party,” Carlson was quick to add, speaking late last week on
the show “Can’t Be Censored.” “I don’t know what I’m going to do.”
Carlson, who has amassed a large following on his own podcast since being fired from Fox News
in 2023, has more recently diverged from the party, a disillusionment
supercharged by President Donald Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran
in February.
Carlson
supported Trump in 2024. After the war began, he apologized for
supporting the then-presidential candidate and “misleading people,”
saying it wasn’t intentional.
He
has repeatedly criticized the war as being at the behest of Israel at
the expense of Americans and attacked the party for failing to represent
its own voters, citizens and nation.
“They are making decisions on
the basis of other criteria, what’s best for this company, what’s best
for Israel, what’s best for our donors,” he said. “That’s not just,
like, they are off in the wrong direction, like, that is unacceptable,
that’s treasonous, it’s immoral, it can’t continue.”
“I’ve
been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican Party, I mean
very consistent defender, but there’s no defending this,” he said. “So
no, I’m out. And if I’m out, then I think a lot of other people are
out.”
