Fox News Star Tucker-Carlson On Tuesday night, he apparently shot the voting software company which is currently suing his network for defamation while claiming that the use of electronic voting machines is ‘shaking people’s faith in the system’ and showing that America is n is “not serious about democracy”.
Carlson, who has long argued that the 2020 presidential election is “riggedfor Joe Biden, was brought in to offer his analysis during Fox News’ coverage of Tuesday’s midterm elections.
Naturally, it wouldn’t be a Carlson segment if he didn’t take advantage of it to inject race into the conversationwhich he did with ease while offering his opinion on the underperformance of Democrats to Hispanic and minority voters in Florida.
“It’s really a hopeful result, I would say. And I’m not saying that as a partisan. I say that because you don’t want a country where it’s white men against everyone else. And that was really the dream of the Democratic Party,” he said. “That’s the policy they hope to create. And what you see is more NPR listeners versus everyone else.
Chief political anchor Bret Baier, meanwhile, noted that the Pennsylvania Senate race was likely to be biting and that it “could be a long time” before they could call it due to the counting of votes.
“Well, that’s the problem,” Carlson replied. “I feel sorry for you, Bret and Martha, because it will be a tense late evening for you. Look, the country is divided into lots of different places. You will have close election results. People have to trust that these results are real, that they can trust the mechanics of the election.
At that point, the prime-time host quickly turned his attention to Arizona and the problems some precincts were allegedly having with vote-counting machines earlier in the day.
“And what happened today in Maricopa County, where a huge percentage of voting machines… 30%, they claim they’re Dominion voting machines, but it almost doesn’t matter “, insisted Carlson. “Electronic voting machines apparently did not allow people to vote.”
After some vote tabulators collapsed at about 20% of polling places in Maricopa County, Arizona—”zero point” for election conspiracy theories—former President Donald Trump and other election-denying Republicans quickly looked into the matter to claim so proved their baseless claims of voter fraud. Although ordinary machine problems were quickly solved, conspiracy theories had already taken root
“Whatever you think about it, its cause, it shakes people’s faith in the system,” Carlson continued. “It is a real threat to democracy. The central problem: we don’t take democracy seriously if we use electronic voting machines. You’re going to have those times when everyone in the country fears volatility because one side doesn’t believe the outcome is real.
Claiming distrust of voting machines works on ‘both sides’ and is not ‘just the mad right’, Carlson said he hoped there would be a ‘bipartisan’ demand to ban electronic voting machines and to “require voting ID cards”.
Carlson showcased voting machines like those made by Dominion on Fox News airwaves just hours after pillow salesman MAGA and ‘Stop the Steal’ standoff Mike Lindel claimed on a QAnon-linked livestream that the Fox star contacted him after the FBI seized his phone.
“Tucker Carlson texted me, he said, ‘Enough,’ and he put it up there. And they even said the word ‘Dominion’ on Fox News,” exclaimed Lindell. “Come on, it’s true, it’s true. Now I heard it, at least it rhymed with “Dominion”.
The Fox News host’s invocation of Dominion is also apparent from the fact that Fox News is currently in the midst of a A $1.6 billion libel lawsuit with the voting software company. alleged dominion that the network knowingly broadcast discredited voter fraud lies about the company after the 2020 election in order to woo disgruntled MAGA viewers, a charge Fox News disputes.
Carlson, along with other Fox News stars, was recently interviewed by Dominion lawyers as the case progresses. Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, meanwhile, should be filed soon.