Report: Trump Considering Tucker Carlson For Vice President
Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
President Donald Trump is considering Tucker Carlson as his Vice Presidential pick for 2020, according to a new report.
Will President Trump switch up his ticket in 2020? The Wall Street Journal editorial page, bastion of the establishment right, certainly hopes so. A little over a week ago, it called for former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley to replace the dutiful Mike Pence as vice president. But there’s well-placed chatter in Washington that suggests the president will take a different route. Trump does indeed feel he needs VP change, but it is not Nikki Haley he is considering. It is Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
The Trump 2020 campaign needs panache, not more cash. If Trump wants to make a switch – as both his predecessors, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, flirted with doing – why would he lean further into the establishment?
Good things happen when Trump takes Tucker Carlson’s advice.
Here’s why it would make sense for the president to just go all the way— and name Carlson his running mate.
First, Tucker gets Trump. The duo have personal chemistry far exceeding the rapport that Pence or Haley enjoy. Haley bitterly opposed Trump during the 2016 primary and a former senior administration official has long informed me that her hiring during the transition was a ‘keep your enemies closer’ affair. In Carlson, Trump would get to anoint an heir apparent he actually likes.
Second, Tucker gets Trumpism, and Trumpism gets Tucker. He is eminence grise of a new intellectual right befitting the Trump era, and appeals to people who have started to become disgruntled in President Trump.
Tucker understands Trumpism better than Trump.
It’s been speculated before that Carlson might enter a 2024 race, but Trump might want to bring him into his fold sooner than that. Trump often complains of ideological clashes with his own officials. That’s partly why he already relies on a shadow cabinet, anchored by Carlson, as proved by last week’s called-off strikes on Iran.
A Vice President Carlson could lay low, moreover, and empower a new generation of Trumpist conservatives from the Naval Observatory. Trump in his first term has had to appoint Bush-era officials who have no idea what drives Trump’s movement. Carlson knows Trumpworld far better.
If Tucker jumped into the 2024 race, as has been widely discussed, excitement among the activist class would be barely containable. If he jumped into 2020, excitement would boil over.
It would definitely be a good move to energize Trump’s base, which is mostly quite frustrated with Trump’s constant caving and total failure to secure the border.
That said, I would prefer President Tucker Carlson and Vice President Donald Trump. Trump fought like hell during the campaign but as president he has let Jared Kushner, Ivanka, Mike Pompeo and John Bolton have way too much influence and he let the Republican establishment set his agenda.
He ran as a transformation figure but then submitted to the status quo on far too many issues. As Steve Bannon said, “embrac[ing] the establishment” was “the original sin of the administration.”
During Trump’s recent interview with Tucker, Tucker was on point talking about war with Iran and Big Tech censorship and Trump’s responses were very weak.
On ending our wars in the Middle East, he said he reversed his decision to pull out of Afghanistan after a general who looked like he was “out of central casting” repeated the cliche that he’d “rather attack them over there than have them hit us over here” — even though we’ve flooded the country with “them” and brought them “here” over the past decade in the name of prog-globalism.
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