The long-running feud between Tucker Carlson and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz escalated, with the conservative podcaster comparing the senator to a known white nationalist on a podcast.
During a sit-down podcast interview with The New York Times, Saturday, May 2, the conservative commentator and former Fox News host called Cruz more "morally repulsive" than Nick Fuentes, a conservative podcaster who has been drawing in backlash for denying the Holocaust and espousing white nationalist views.
Midway through talking to host Lulu Garcia-Navarro about him having Fuentes on his podcast, Carlson posed a question to Garcia-Navarro: "Who do you think is more morally repulsive: Ted Cruz or Nick Fuentes?"
Garcia-Navarro did not answer but instead flipped to a question about Carlson, who immediately answered Cruz.
"Cruz is a sitting U.S. senator who has called for the killing of people who did nothing wrong, whole populations, who advocated for this war. Nick Fuentes is a kid. He’s like 26 or 27. He has no power except his words," Carlson said during the podcast.
