Conservative pundit and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson has used Nazi ideology to describe Vice President Kamala Harris, saying she is part of a “new master race” and that both she and President Joe Biden are unelectable.
Social Media Commentary
In a video posted on his X (formerly Twitter) account, Carlson commented on the results of the Iowa caucuses last week that Republican candidate Donald Trump won by a landslide.
‘Unpopular Candidates’
Carlson, 54, told his 11.2 million followers: “Joe Biden is going to have a very hard time getting re-elected, much less serving another term. It’s impossible to imagine. Yet the party cannot replace him, because that would leave Kamala Harris, who is even more unpopular than he is.”
‘Member of New Master Race’
Harris continued: “Harris is a member of the new master race; she cannot be booted off a presidential ticket. She must be shown maximum respect at all times, no matter what she says or does. And so that means the Democratic Party is stuck with two fatally unpopular candidates. It’s their doing, of course, but it’s a massive problem. They can’t get out of it.”
Nazi Master Race
Adolf Hitler’s obsession with the “master race,” comprised of white “Aryans” is, historians say, what partly gave rise to the Holocaust in which around 6 million Jews placed in a network of concentration camps by the Nazi regime and killed.
Trump Echoing Hitler
Former President Trump has evoked Nazi ideology, saying at a rally in December that immigrants were “poisoning the blood” of the United States– a term Hitler used in his manifesto, Mein Kampf.
‘Revealing, Ignorant Disparagement’
Washington Post columnist Philip Bump, in a commentary article titled “Tucker Carlson’s revealing, ignorant disparagement of the vice president,” said “his assessment of Vice President Harris” was “cringe-inducing.”
Questioning Harris’ Race
Bump continued, saying: “But take a step back and consider what Carlson is saying: that Harris, who identifies as both Black and Indian, is nonetheless part of ‘a master race.’ What is that race? Being non-White, apparently.”
‘Whites Targeted by Biden’
Bump added: “At another point, Carlson suggested that Whites didn’t deserve to be targeted by Biden (which they aren’t) because, among other things, they are suffering from the fact that ‘they will soon be a minority in the country their ancestors founded.’ (Itself an arguable assertion.)”
Carlson Haley Attack
Carlson also took aim at GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley – Trump’s only rival left after others bowed out following the Iowa vote – in his video on X. He said she has “the same views as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
Haley’s New Hampshire Chances
Carlson said: “If Nikki Haley wins or even does very well in New Hampshire, it’ll be a big story, of course, and we’ll hear a lot about it. But then what happens? It’s a long primary process. New Hampshire is just one small, heavily-wooded state out of 50. Will Republicans in other states back Nikki Haley too? Will she win a string of these? Well, they’re not going to vote for her voluntarily.”
Trump ‘Jailed’
The media commentator, who was fired from Fox News last year for unclear reasons, suggested that the only way Haley could win the Republican Party nomination for the 2024 presidential election would be if Trump was jailed over 91 criminal charges he is fighting.
Haley ‘Wins by Default’
He proposed a scenario whereby “critically, Donald Trump goes to jail. And that could happen too, to be honest. And at that point, bam! Nikki Haley wins the Republican nomination by default.”
‘Not Foolproof’
Carlson said: “Now, it’s not a foolproof plan. A lot could go wrong. But at this point, it’s the only plan. It’s all that Democrats have.”
Trump, Haley National Polling
With Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy having withdrawn from the GOP nomination race, the contest is solely between Trump and Haley and the former continues to lead by a wide margin in the polls. Trump has 67.8 percent support among registered Republican voters while Haley has just 12.3 percent, according to an average of recent national polls compiled by the FiveThirtyEight tracking site.
Trump’s Legal Battles
But Trump’s legal troubles that threaten to land him in prison for decades could, legal analysts say, become a major stumbling block on his path back to the White House. Trump has been indicted four times, including for allegedly attempting to overturn the result of the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden and block the peaceful transfer of power. Other indictments say Trump mishandled classified government documents and made hush money payments to a former adult film star to cover up an affair. Trump says he is not guilty of any of the charges and claims they were brought by Democratic operatives trying to stop him from becoming president again.
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