Tucker Carlson 2028 Presidential Run Has Republican Jewish Coalition and Israel Lobby Deeply Worried About Anti-Zionism Gaining Ground

[00:01] : are having a  

[00:02] tough time deciding whether or not Tucker  Carlson poses a threat. In fact, some of  

[00:08] them are concerned that the former Fox News host  is considering a presidential run in 2028. And  

[00:14] he does have a significant amount of popularity  among conservative voters. So if that does happen,  

[00:20] he wouldn't be a formidable opponent to  any pro-Israel candidate. Nonetheless,  

[00:28] I do want to talk a little bit about what's going  on behind the scenes because at the Republican  

[00:32] Jewish Coalition Gala last November, so this  is like about six months ago, seven months ago,  

[00:38] there was a palpable concern, a complete panic  over anti-Semitism erupting from within the right  

[00:46] wing in America. And Senator Ted Cruz at the time  said the following, in the last six months, I've  

[00:52] seen more anti-Semitism on the right than I had  in my entire life. That's hilarious and I don't  

[00:59] believe it. But nonetheless, without naming any  names directly, Cruz then took shots at Candace  

[01:06] Owens, Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, with whom he  had just had a pretty contentious and embarrassing  

[01:13] debate with. That was the now notorious interview  with Tucker Carlson where Ted Cruz had a hard time  

[01:21] answering questions about his unwavering support  for a foreign country. Now Cruz rounded out his  

[01:28] complaints by saying this, and as for me, I choose  to stand with you, I choose to stand with Israel,  

[01:33] and I choose to stand with America. But when the  same group reconvened just this past weekend on  

[01:40] Sunday, they struck a different tone, which  I found fascinating. They might be emboldened  

[01:46] by a series of eight pack victories recently in  various elections, primary elections, of course,  

[01:53] that included the ousting of Thomas Massey.  You also had the resignation of Marjorie Taylor  

[01:58] Greene, who was a pretty vociferous Israel  critic toward the end of her congressional  

[02:04] career. And then you have Joe Kent leaving the  White House, resigning, which I don't think the  

[02:11] Israel lobby had much to do with, but I'm sure  they're very, very happy with that. Nonetheless,  

[02:16] uh here's the CEO of the Republican Jewish  Coalition. His name is Matt Brooks, and here's  

[02:22] what he had to say just this past weekend. We have  been strong and vocal in confronting the poisonous  

[02:28] anti-Semitism and anti-Israel rhetoric coming from  people like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and  

[02:34] Nick Fuentes. Whether it comes from the far left  or the far right, whether it's wrapped in America  

[02:42] first language or dressed up as social commentary,  anti-Semitism is anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is  

[02:51] when you hate a group of Jewish people because  they're Jewish. When you discriminate against  

[02:58] them, when you are okay with people harming them,  whatever. It's when you are targeting a group of  

[03:06] people, based on their ethnicity, based on their  race, based on their immutable characteristics.  

[03:12] Zionism is a political belief. No one is born  a Zionist. People are brainwashed into being  

[03:20] Zionists, but they're not born to be Zionists.  Just keep that in mind. After throwing shade  

[03:27] at Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson, he also  went on to applaud the Republican Party on its  

[03:32] handling of Israel's detractors. Take a listen.  Anti-Israel in today's Republican Party is not,  

[03:40] unlike in the Democratic Party, a path to success.  ah It needs to be though. It needs to be. So the  

[03:48] American people have a decision to make here. And  I do think it makes sense to, for the first time,  

[03:53] be a single issue voter. Do you want to live in a  sovereign country or not? Do you want our elected  

[03:59] representatives, our lawmakers, our president?  consistently side with Israel and its interests at  

[04:08] the detriment of the American people. But it's a  simple question. I don't give a damn about Israel,  

[04:14] just like, do I care about other countries? Sure,  but not as much as I care about my own. And I do  

[04:25] hate Israel, how could you not? Especially as an  American, especially as someone who has carried  

[04:32] the brunt what Israel does in the Middle East,  whether you're Palestinian, whether you're an  

[04:38] Iranian, Lebanese, Syria, Syrian. mean, it's  just the list goes on, Iraq, the list goes on  

[04:46] and on and on and on. So yeah, a lot of people  hate Israel, that doesn't mean they hate Jewish  

[04:50] people. Just because you insist on calling it a  Jewish state, just because you insist on trying  

[04:55] to build an ethno state, doesn't mean that all  Jews are implicated in that. it doesn't mean that  

[05:03] all Jewish people buy into the Zionist slop that  clowns at this conference have bought into. Hating  

[05:11] Israel is not the same as being an anti-Semite. So  Brooks also bragged to raucous applause about the  

[05:24] RJC spending $5 million in the race against Thomas  Massey. But don't tell Shabbos Kestenbaum that,  

[05:32] right? Because Shabbos would have you believe that  the Israel lobby had no role, had no role at all,  

[05:39] at all, right? And then you hear Brooks bragging  about it. He described the experience into the  

[05:45] race as a right a worth having and a victory worth  celebrating. And a right worth having meaning  

[05:52] right wing politicians who get down on their knees  and pleasure Israel. That's the right that he's  

[05:57] talking about. uh But some on the right are not  as convinced and in fact, some are worried that  

[06:05] Israel's critics haven't been sufficiently purged  from the Republican Party and they specifically  

[06:11] cite Tucker Carlson. So Carlson has been seen as  one of Israel's most I think that's a fair label.  

[06:20] He has been very vocal for good reason. I agree  with a lot of what he has to say about Israel  

[06:24] these days. And he did experience an uptick in  popularity because guess what? The American people  

[06:29] like truth tellers and they can usually suss out  inauthenticity. In the case of Donald Carlson,  

[06:34] he's pretty authentic when he's talking about  Israel. Others argue that, so I'll give you an  

[06:39] example of some of the people speaking out. Or in  Siegel, the ADL's vice president of extremism and  

[06:47] intelligence. Let's all pause for laughter.  There's nothing more extreme in the country  

[06:50] right now than Zionists. He said in an interview  with JTA that his organization's biggest worry  

[06:56] regarding Carlson is not merely his relationship  with any conservative or elected officials,  

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[08:08] tyt. That's Shopify.com slash tyt. Okay, let me  be clear. Tucker Carlson did not normalize these  

[08:15] views. Israel's behavior normalized these views.  You think people are sitting around waiting to  

[08:22] hear what Tucker Carlson tells them to think? Or  could it be that the American people have viewed  

[08:28] endless videos of Israel's slaughter campaigns in  sovereign countries or in Palestinian territory.  

[08:38] Israel's behavior has normalized the perspective  that people like me share on the show almost on a  

[08:46] daily basis at this point in regard to Israel.  Just stop slaughtering kids, stop killing  

[08:52] innocent, stop trying to steal land. It's not that  hard, but they can't help themselves. So if you're  

[08:57] going to do that, then you're going to have to  deal with the criticism. But here's the thing,  

[09:01] Zionists want their cake and eat it too. They  want to do whatever they want. Endless suffering  

[09:07] carried out by the IDF, endless slaughter carried  out by the IDF. And that's not good enough. On top  

[09:14] of that, we all have to sit around and talk about  how great Israel is and never criticize them,  

[09:19] no. No, I don't play that game. And most  Americans don't, we like to express ourselves. So  

[09:26] um pattern recognition is real. And the pattern  I've recognized is that the Israeli government is  

[09:34] full of war criminals, bloodthirsty, greedy, and  doesn't value human life. Unless we're talking  

[09:42] about other Zionist Jews, not Jews, just Zionist  Jews. So, others argue that Tucker's influence  

[09:52] within the right has begun to wane. look, Randy  Fine, who's a disgraceful, disgusting hog of  

[09:59] a congressman said, reminded the audience at the  RJC event held in Manhattan on Sunday that in his  

[10:06] speech to the RJC in November, he called Carlson  the most dangerous anti-Semite in America. Now he  

[10:13] said, I don't know that that's true anymore. Now  Fine has a different person in his crosshairs.  

[10:21] He now believes the country's most dangerous  anti-Semites are on Mamdani, New York City's  

[10:26] anti-Zionist mayor. In contrast, he said Carlson's  impact had only plummeted in the past half year.  

[10:33] Quote, think that brand has been destroyed in  the last six months, he wrote, attributing the  

[10:39] change to politicians like himself calling Carlson  out, as well as the damage he has done to himself.  

[10:47] whatever you need to tell yourself to feel better.  But Fiennes' assessment could be way off. In fact,  

[10:52] I think it is way off because despite  expressing no interest, Tucker Carlson has  

[10:56] floated the possibility of running for president  in 2028. look, during an interview with Russian  

[11:06] television just last week, Candace Owens uh said  that she would support him if he threw his name  

[11:12] in the hat. He says, I would love for him to run,  would- gratefully get behind someone like Tucker  

[11:18] Carlson. he showed, look, polymarket is not a  good indicator of what's actually going on. So  

[11:26] I'm not even gonna go to that. I thought about it.  There was a polymarket uh story about how a bunch  

[11:32] of people in this betting market are betting that  he will secure a victory in the 2028 presidential  

[11:39] campaign, or primary, I should say. Still if  Tucker decided to run, he has to contend with  

[11:44] serious turtles, as the RJC CEO Matt Brooks said.  There's only one party where American Jews can be  

[11:52] proudly pro-Israel, and that is the Republican  Party. And those who imperil that will have to  

[11:57] come through the RJC first. Well, I hope we all  get to experience and witness that fight. I don't  

[12:05] know if we will. I don't know if Tucker Carlson is  going to run in 2028. I'm sorry, we don't have a  

[12:14] single party where you can safely be anti-Israel.  The Democrats aren't as cucked as the Republicans  

[12:21] are, at least rhetorically speaking, but they're  pretty cucked through their actions, aren't they?  

[12:27] I mean, you can name a handful of Democrats  who would go against Israel and everything  

[12:35] Israel desires. I don't even know if I can name a  handful, I know Ro Khanna is one of them. I know  

[12:42] that Rashida Tlaib is another one, Ilhan Omar  is another one. I'm supposed to pretend that  

[12:46] AOC would push back against Israel aggressively. I  don't believe it, but okay, slim pickings, right?  

[12:55] So. I just, I don't think these people  realize how delusional they are. I don't  

[13:04] think they realize that everything they do  runs counter to what their agenda is. They  

[13:11] want Americans to love Israel, but all  of their actions, all of their behavior,  

[13:14] including pushing pretty aggressively to  censor Americans who are critical of Israel,  

[13:19] makes Americans hate Israel more. But they're  too dumb to realize it and they keep doing it.  

[13:25] And honestly, for my purposes, I think that's  great, keep doing it. because I'd love to live  

[13:31] in a sovereign country. Ideally one that has  no relationship with Israel whatsoever. uh