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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Jim Manzon

Tucker Carlson Says America Is a 'One-Party State': Why His Third Party Push Lands Four Months Before Midterms

Tucker Carlson says he has not spoken to Donald Trump since the Iran strikes began and rules out running for office himself (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Tucker Carlson says he will help build a third political party in the US, declaring that the country is 'a one-party state posing as a democracy' that 'needs to be broken', in an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review published on 1 July, four months before the 3 November midterm elections.

The former Fox News host ruled out running himself. 'I don't want to be a candidate,' he said. The announcement extends his 22 June declaration that he was done voting for Republicans, a party he accused of putting a foreign country's interests above those of American citizens.

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