{"id":99242,"date":"2026-08-08T16:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/cannon-is-talk-about-tucker-2028-a-shot-across-the-bow-of-uss-gop-if-you-run-rubio\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:43:05","slug":"cannon-is-talk-about-tucker-2028-a-shot-across-the-bow-of-uss-gop-if-you-run-rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/cannon-is-talk-about-tucker-2028-a-shot-across-the-bow-of-uss-gop-if-you-run-rubio\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannon: Is\u00a0Talk About Tucker 2028 a Shot Across the Bow of USS GOP&#8211;&#8220;If You Run Rubio&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Tucker Carlson and other ex-MAGA dissidents are floating a challenge to America&#8217;s two-party system, but what&#8217;s the real endgame? Carl Cannon warns that Carlson wouldn&#8217;t need to win to matter: If he gets on the ballot in any of these key states in a general election, I mean, he could be an influence.  &#8220;Is this a gambit to try and fire a shot across, you know, the USS GOP and say, &#8216;If you run Marco Rubio, Carlson will run,'&#8221; Carl Cannon asked. &#8220;The fear among Republicans is that Tucker would siphon just enough votes to assure a Democratic victory.&#8221;  Is he trying to pick between two likely candidates, JD Vance and Senator Marco Rubio? Is he trying to tip the scales in favor of JD Vance?  &#8220;The fear among Republicans &#8211; and when I say Republicans, I&#8217;m talking about the modern Republican Party, which is the Trump Party &#8211; is that Tucker would siphon just enough votes to assure a Democratic victory.&#8221;  &#8220;Carlson doesn&#8217;t have to carry states. If he gets on the ballot in any of these key states in a general election, I mean, he could be an influence,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/08\/07\/cannon_talk_about_tucker_2028_is_a_shot_across_the_bow_of_uss_gop--if_you_run_rubio.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker Carlson and other ex-MAGA dissidents are floating a challenge to America&#8217;s two-party system, but what&#8217;s the real endgame? Carl Cannon warns that Carlson wouldn&#8217;t need to win to matter: If he gets on the ballot in any of these key states in a general election, I mean, he could be an influence. &#8220;Is this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23753,324,2888,1468,30150,30149,18374,2024,9224],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}