Tucker Carlson floats idea of new political party in the US in interview

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Former Fox News host further said he doesn’t ‘want to be a candidate’ for president and aired frustration with Trump Tucker Carlson , the rightwing broadcaster, wants to help build a new political party in the United States, he said in an interview – though he gave scant detail about the party, and did not indicate whether he was referring to a concrete project or merely musing. In the same interview, Carlson dismissed the idea of running for office as part of that new party. “I don’t want to be a candidate,” he said. Carlson, the former Fox News broadcaster turned podcast host, has made no secret of his frustration with the Trump administration and especially its war with Iran. In recent months he has expressed regret for formerly supporting Donald Trump , and just last week said that there was “no chance” he would support Republicans – or Democrats – in the midterm elections this November. He escalated that line of thought in an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) published on Wednesday. “I do know what really matters is war and finance,” he said, suggesting that pro-Israel donors had pressured Trump into attacking Iran. And “on those questions, the parties are in lockstep solidarity with each other. His remarks to CJR contradict an interview with the New York Times, in May, in which he said :“[T]here should be a party that is speaking for most people. In the CJR interview, Carlson acknowledged having tried to personally talk Trump out of military intervention in Iran. That faction of the right – sometimes referred to as “America First”, to distinguish it from Trump’s “make America great again” – has also expressed frustration that Trump’s hardline immigration policies are not sufficiently radical. “I’m for less immigration,” Carlson told CJR. “In fact, I’m for ending all immigration today. I don’t know how you can justify immigration when half of all white-collar jobs are going away because of AI.