Tucker Carlson says Trump era is over

Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, told his podcast audience Wednesday that the Trump era has ended, a day after Democrats won back both the House and the Senate in midterm elections that included victories in several red states. He also pronounced the Fox News era finished, saying the network will go on but no longer matters as it once did, according to The Independent.

Carlson blamed the Iran war above all, which has dragged on for eight months and which polls show is unpopular. He argued that President Donald Trump betrayed his own supporters by joining it and that Fox, along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pushed him toward it. He also faulted weak Republican candidates, including Vivek Ramaswamy and Mike Rogers, and called the Darline Graham nomination a "humiliation ritual." He cautioned that danger remains, since the new Congress is not seated until January and Trump holds wide latitude over foreign policy.

Carlson, who campaigned with Trump before 2024, broke with him this spring over the war. Trump has called him "totally irrelevant." Exit polls ranked the conflict among voters' top concerns, and Vice President JD Vance wrote on X that the war is why Republicans lost.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Independent’s reporting. Read the full story at The Independent →