Former President Donald Trump recently dropped hints of a potential 2024 running mate by expressing his openness to considering Tucker Carlson for Vice President.
It has been noted that during a conversation on “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show,” Trump responded to the suggestion with characteristic bravado, stating, “I like Tucker a lot. I guess I would consider him. He’s got great common sense.”
The hint comes as the political arena buzzes with questions about who will stand alongside Trump as the vice president candidate for the 2024 race. Trump’s praise of Carlson’s “common sense” echoes the sentiments of many conservatives who admire the commentator’s frank and sometimes controversial takes on current affairs.
It is not as far-fetched as it may have seemed to have Tucker Carlson as Vice President. During a discussion about this possibility, Trump remembered his decision to interview Carlson during the first Republican debate. This move had resulted in record-breaking viewership figures.
Trump cited the ratings as evidence of the powerful draw of conservative media voices like Carlson’s. Hosted on Carlson’s show, “Debate Night with Donald J Trump” garnered a staggering 212.3 million impressions. To put this into perspective, when Fox News broke the debate ratings record back in 2015, largely attributed to Trump’s participation, the event peaked at 24 million viewers.
During the interview, Trump was asked whether he believed his political enemies would try to have him killed as his poll numbers continue to rise despite four indictments.
“Impeachment didn’t work, twice, obviously. The indictments are not working, your poll numbers go up. When they raided Mar-A-Lago in August of last year, your numbers went up,” Carlson asked back in August.
Trump replied. “I mean the four indictments, and maybe there’s more, I don’t know. These people are crazy,” he continued. “They’re savage animals,” Trump said of the radical left and the Biden Administration. “They are people that are sick, really sick.”
