Fox News host Tucker Carlson is scheduled to speak at a leadership summit in Iowa known for attracting Republicans with presidential ambitions. Carlson will headline the 2022 FAMiLY Leadership Summit in Des Moines, Iowa this July and the announcement has already triggered some of his critics on Twitter to speculate if it could lead to something more.
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Mediaite reports:
The FAMiLY Leader is a socially conservative Chrisitan political organization, whose annual gathering has become a regular stomping ground for potential GOP presidential candidates. In 2021, the FAMiLY Leadership Summit was addressed by potential 2024 presidential candidates like former VP Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD).
“Tucker Carlson heading to Iowa, home of the presidential caucuses, this summer. This particular group’s gathering has long been an event attended by Republicans with presidential ambitions,” wrote CBS News’ Robert Costa.
However, despite Carlson’s involvement with the summit the popular Fox host has attempted to tamp down on rumors that he could be considering a presidential bid.
per The Hill:
“I mean, I guess if like I was the last person on earth I could do it, but I mean, it seems pretty unlikely that I would be that guy,” he said last year. “If I were running for president — which obviously I would never do, I would be insane to run for president, I would never do that.”
The host has, however, criticized Republican leadership in Congress since launching his show in 2016, this week blasting House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for comments he has made about the GOP’s more conservative members, dissing him as someone who “in private sounds like an MSNBC contributor,” after McCarthy was caught on an audio recording complaining about the social media postings of some of his members.
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