{"id":2471422,"date":"2026-06-23T01:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2471422"},"modified":"2026-06-23T01:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:23:31","slug":"tucker-carlson-says-hell-no-longer-support-the-republican-party-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/tucker-carlson-says-hell-no-longer-support-the-republican-party-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Carlson says he&#8217;ll no longer support the Republican Party | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Longtime conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said on a podcast that \u201cthere&#8217;s no chance I would support the Republican Party&#8221; ahead of the November midterm elections, dismissing the political affiliation he&#8217;s defended as a pundit for decades, including as one of Fox News Channel&#8217;s most popular hosts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot gonna support the Democratic Party,\u201d Carlson was quick to add, speaking late last week on the show \u201cCan&#8217;t Be Censored.\u201d \u201cI don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlson, who has amassed a large following on his own podcast since being <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tucker-carlson-out-fox-news-58a8421c55978f223b9c4b1d1cbe50be\">fired from Fox News<\/a> in 2023, has more recently diverged from the party, a disillusionment supercharged by President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to go to war with Iran in February.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson supported Trump in 2024. After the war began, he apologized for supporting the then-presidential candidate and \u201cmisleading people,&#8221; saying it wasn&#8217;t intentional.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s repeatedly criticized the war as being at the behest of Israel at the expense of Americans, and attacked the party for failing to represent its own voters, citizens and nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are making decisions on the basis of other criteria, what\u2019s best for this company, what\u2019s best for Israel, what\u2019s best for our donors,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s not just, like, they are off in the wrong direction, like, that is unacceptable, that\u2019s treasonous, it\u2019s immoral, it can\u2019t continue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been a consistent defender for 35 years of the Republican Party, I mean very consistent defender, but there\u2019s no defending this,&#8221; he said. \u201cSo no, I\u2019m out. And if I\u2019m out, then I think a lot of other people are out.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yakimaherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime conservative commentator Tucker Carlson said on a podcast that \u201cthere&#8217;s no chance I would support the Republican Party&#8221; ahead of the November midterm elections, dismissing the political affiliation he&#8217;s defended as a pundit for decades, including as one of Fox News Channel&#8217;s most popular hosts. \u201cNot gonna support the Democratic Party,\u201d Carlson was quick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2471423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[413499],"class_list":["post-2471422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ap-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Tucker-Carlson-says-hell-no-longer-support-the-Republican-Party.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2471424,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471422\/revisions\/2471424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2471423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}