00:00Conservative podcaster Tucker Carlson made a well-publicized break from President Trump earlier
00:05this year, and his next step could be launching a conservative third party to try and reshape
00:10the politics of the right. Carlson announced a manifesto of sorts outlining 10 things he thinks
00:16America needs, boiled down to their core. Tucker says he wants to spearhead a conservative party
00:22that is fair for all citizens, avoids outside influence from other nations, and is productive,
00:27beautiful, healthy, honest, optimistic, wise, decent, and united. Kind of a tall order there.
00:32Carlson announced all of this during a live stream where he did go into a lot more detail on each
00:36of
00:36those things, but at the end of it all, what it actually did was increase the volume of whispers
00:41suggesting that Carlson may throw his hat into the 2020 presidential ring as an independent
00:45conservative candidate. Those close to him threw cold water on that notion, but whether he leads
00:50a third party or supports someone else doing it, it is historically an uphill battle. The biggest
00:55vote-getter of the past 35 years was Ross Perot in 1992 with a little less than 19 percent of
01:00the
01:00vote. The more likely impact of a Carlson candidacy or support of someone doing it as a third party
01:06would be to either split the conservative vote or perhaps strike enough fear of that happening to
01:11move the GOP candidate closer to his way of seeing things.
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