Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson hints at presidential bid

Come the 2028 elections, the United States may be replacing one conservative television personality in the White House with another.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has made a series of statements and moves that indicate he will jump in the presidential race.

And he is appealing to a growing number of Republicans who have come to believe Donald Trump does not have their best interests at heart.

Carlson was once one of Trump’s most enthusiastic supporters, backing him at every decision and lashing out at his critics.

But things have changed for Carlson, and he is now focusing on the issues Trump is most unpopular on.

There were rumblings Carlson would consider a run for the White House himself, and a 10-point manifesto released last week has poured fuel on that fire.

Read more

Trump edits photo of himself to look decades younger, slimmer

That includes the war on Iran, support for Israel and Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

“You have to have a consensus that no person gets special rights ever,” Carlson said in a 98 minute-long YouTube video.

“That would include the president of the United States down to, by the way, Jeffrey Epstein.”

Carlson has an advantage few potential Republican candidates currently have - he’s a household name with sterling conservative bona fides, but he isn’t tainted by Trump’s unpopularity.

With Trump’s approval ratings getting worse among his base, Carlson might have an avenue to win the Republican presidential primary in 2028.

But Carlson has instead said he was interested in creating another political party to run against Republicans and Democrats.

Read more

How Hunter Biden went from a pariah to a potential presidential candidate

This would be the nightmare scenario for Republicans. With no preferential voting, any conservative alternative would make it far more difficult for Republicans to get elected.

A photo posted by another Trump defector, Marjorie Taylor Greene, has made Republicans nervous.

Gathered around a table was Greene, Carlson, Representative Thomas Massie and former counterterrorism chief Joe Kent.

All are diehard conservatives with their own supporter bases, and all have publicly criticised Trump.

“We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise,” Greene captioned the photo on X.

“But he’s betrayed us all.

“Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and centre. 

“The movement has begun.”

But campaigning against Trump is a nebulous proposition for the simple reason that the president cannot run again.

Despite his frequent declarations that he will run for re-election in 2028, Trump legally cannot do so.

The constitution blocks presidents from running for president if they have already served two terms in office.

For Trump to make another run for president, he would need to convince two-thirds of both the House and the Senate to vote in his favour.

Then he would need three-quarters of the legislatures of every state to vote for it.

What might be an even tougher task is convincing the voters. Right now his approval ratings are dire and have been getting steadily worse throughout his second term.

And overturning the two-term limit might put him up against a younger and more popular opponent - Barack Obama.

There’s no indication Obama would be interested in a third run for president, but if he did he would likely win in a walk.

There was more indication Trump is losing his pull among conservative voters in primary elections last night.

Read more

The former Australian citizen who might be America’s next president

In recent years, an endorsement from Trump was a golden ticket to winning the party nomination.

But yesterday his endorsed candidate for governor in Minnesota could only muster 32 per cent of the vote in the Republican primary.

His handpicked candidate in the South Carolina Senate primary also could not muster a third of the vote.