Tucker Carlson Reveals Favorite Moment From the US Election 2024
Tucker Carlson has chosen his favorite moment from the U.S. presidential election as the candidates head into the home straight of a uniquely eventful competition.
Among other things, the 2024 race has featured two assassination attempts against a presidential candidate, a Kennedy endorsement for Donald Trump and the Cheney family throwing its support behind a Democratic ticket.
On Wednesday the former Fox News host spoke with Megyn Kelly on an episode of her podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show, about the election and his new documentary, The Art of the Surge, which chronicled the 2024 Trump campaign and featured exclusive footage of the race's most shocking moments.
After the host called this year's contest "the most bizarre, compelling, interesting, consequential election in U.S. history," Carlson revealed that his "personal favorite" moment came during the June 27 debate between Trump and President Joe Biden .
Referencing behind-the-scenes footage from his documentary, Carlson mentioned that he took particular delight in watching the live reactions of those who had accompanied Trump to the debate, and who stood stunned backstage as Biden claimed that his administration "beat Medicare."
"And these are people who do politics for a living, who know Biden personally, who sort of have what they think is going to happen in mind," Carlson said. "What actually happens is so shocking to them – it's truly unscripted – you just can't – they're sitting there with jaws agape. They can't believe this guy is melting down the way that he is."
The debate, in which the incumbent president stumbled over words and failed to articulate himself on several occasions , led to a torrent of age-related attacks against the octogenarian. The resulting pressures from members of his own party have been credited with leading to Biden's eventual withdrawal on July 21.
Kelly said: "We were all having the same reaction in our homes, but to see team Trump and others backstage watching it as we did is something else entirely."
"If you saw that live, which just about everyone did, you'd think 'Is that just me or was that the most profound failure ever captured on film,'" Carlson added. "And then you watch people who do this for a living – Lindsey Graham , Tim Scott , JD Vance , Lara Trump – Ben Carson stops in mid-bite looking at this."
Both Carlson and Kelly also cited Robert F. Kennedy Jr .'s endorsement of Trump, as well the July 13 and Sept. 15 assassination attempts against Trump, as events no one would have predicted to feature in a standard presidential election.
