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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Adam Gabbatt

‘Not a chance’: Fox News viewers reject Tucker Carlson’s replacement

Brian Kilmeade
On Fox and Friends, Brian Kilmeade serves as an excitable, unthreatening everyman. Photograph: Richard Drew/AP

There were a lot of questions floating around after Fox News unceremoniously dumped rightwing firebrand Tucker Carlson on Monday morning.

Among them: can the conservative news channel effectively replace its most popular host, a grievance-filled firebrand who drew in more than 3 million viewers every night?

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