The Trump comeback needs a storyteller, and Tucker Carlson plans to play that role.
On Monday the quixotic conservative journalist released a slickly produced trailer of his upcoming documentary on the campaign to return former President Donald Trump to the White House, packing it with 96 high-speed seconds of admissions from his friends, aerial views, and arenas of fans. Carlson, if anything, is an entertainer who promises to release a compelling narrative about who is supporting the former president this year, and why. Among the scenes: hip-hop fans touting red MAGA caps, cowboys waving ten-gallon hats, and shaky footage of Carlson’s vantage point during the July 13th assassination attempt.
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Asked to describe the momentum he’s seeing, Congressman Byron Donalds (R-FL) said President Trump’s third run for the White House is defined by “execution,” a summary that even Democrats agree is accurate and driven by the tight circle of battle-tested advisors who surround him these days. Many, including spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt and his own children, are intimately familiar with the successes and missteps of his four years in office and two previous campaigns, and they are determined to learn from their mistakes. Speaking with Politico, recently departed Biden advisor Anita Dunn said the discipline of President Trump’s campaign played a significant role in the Democrat’s poor debate performance on July 27th. “The people who are running his campaign this time are very good. … They’re much smarter. They’re running a very competent campaign. We saw that early in this process. And so we had a reasonable expectation that they were going to have a fairly competent rollout and a fairly good convention,” she said on Thursday.
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Carlson, who has been a trusted media figure to Trump for years, promises “unprecedented access” in his latest film, and from the teaser trailer, it certainly appears he will deliver. Titled, “The Art of the Surge: The Donald Trump Comeback,” it is promised for later release on the Tucker Carlson Network, a media service founded by Carlson after spending more than a year on Twitter. He found his footage there after being fired from Fox News in the wake of a devastating lawsuit by Dominion that in part relied on statements the former anchor made regarding their voting machines and their role in the 2020 election. Carlson was essentially welcomed onto the platform by Elon Musk and rode a surge in conservative users who flocked to the site as Musk rebranded it X and promised unfettered free speech.
Though he never left the platform, Carlson teases his 13.4 million followers with limited programming and other enticements to subscribe to his own network at TuckerCarlson.com. If he continues to produce the kinds of feature films that “Art of the Surge” promises to be, he could significantly alter the conservative media landscape and prove his shadow looms larger than ever since parting ways with Fox.
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