Tucker Carlson Said He Would Help Create a Third Political Party in the U.S.

American television host Tucker Carlson has said he intends to help create a new political party in the United States, the New York Post reports. According to the publication, he reached that decision after breaking with the Republican Party amid disagreements over the war with Iran.

“I’m going to help start a third party. <…> There has to be a good-faith attempt to figure out what actually benefits our country,” Carlson said in an interview with Columbia Journalism Review.

In his view, on the two issues he considers “most consequential” for Americans—war and finance—Democrats and Republicans effectively act in the same way.

“That is not democracy. That is a one-party state posing as a democracy, and it needs to be broken, and there will be a third party, and I will do everything in my power to make that happen,” Carlson said.

He also accused the existing political forces of putting the interests of other countries above those of American citizens. “At this point…how can I, or any American voter, support a political party that is not loyal to the United States, that puts the interests of a foreign country above those of its own citizens? You can’t vote for people like that,” the television host said.

Carlson made clear that his political platform would focus primarily on America’s domestic problems and the condition of middle-income Americans.

“If you make $60,000 a year, you are humiliated. Your life expectancy has gone down, and your children’s life prospects have probably disappeared. And nobody seems to care. It’s not even a factor,” he said.

In that context, Carlson separately stressed that, in his view, the foreign-policy agenda should not displace domestic priorities. “‘What about Hamas?’ I’m formally declaring: I don’t care about Hamas. The US government’s first priority should be the well-being of its own people,” he said.

Carlson himself, however, does not plan to run as a candidate for the new political force. “I don’t want to be a candidate,” he said.

Earlier, the television host publicly claimed that Donald Trump’s administration had “betrayed the United States” by entering the war with Iran under pressure from Israel.