Whether he wants it or not, chatter about Tucker Carlson running for president in 2028 won’t go away.Carlson has reiterated that he has no desire to run for president himself, but his allies see him as the leader of the increasingly loud pro-MAGA but anti-President Donald Trump lane.Then, after telling the Columbia Journalism Review last month that he hopes to “help build a third party,” he announced a 10-point platform for that third party in an episode of his eponymous podcast, which has been seen more than 1.5 million times on X and had almost 700,000 views on YouTube since Wednesday.
The episode came after he hosted pro-MAGA, anti-Trump acolytes at his Maine cabin last weekend, including former Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), and one-time Trump administration aide Joe Kent, who stepped down as Trump’s counterterrorism chief in March over the Iran war.The trio implored Carlson to run for president, according to Kent during a separate episode of The Young Turks on Wednesday.“I’d say all of us at one point in time told Tucker he needs to run, and Tucker’s been pretty public that he’s not going to run,” Kent told host Cenk Uygur. “So we all made our pitch to Tucker as to why he should run, and hopefully he wakes up one day and says he’s gonna run. I fully support that.”
