Pence and Hutchinson get slaughtered in Blaze Media straw poll while Ramaswamy earns plaudits

Pence and Hutchinson get slaughtered in Blaze Media straw poll while Ramaswamy earns plaudits



A Blaze Media straw poll about the presidential forum in Iowa last week found that author and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy earned high marks for his performance, but other candidates were not as well received.

Tucker Carlson interviewed multiple GOP presidential hopefuls at the FAMiLY Leadership Summit last week. Blaze Media teamed up with the FAMiLY Leader for the event. The Republican primary candidates who sat for interviews with Carlson included former Vice President Mike Pence, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Ramaswamy, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The poll results discussed below were current as of the time of writing, but the straw poll results are still fluid because new responses keep coming in. The number of votes cast in each particular question varies.

Ramaswamy earned more than 62% of the votes cast in response to the question, "Which candidate would you say performed the BEST?" DeSantis placed second with more than 32%, while Scott received 4%. Haley had more than 1%, and Hutchinson and Pence both had well below 1%.

But Hutchinson and Pence dominated when it came to the question of who had performed the worst, with Pence earning more than 54% of the votes and Hutchinson earning nearly 42%.

On the question of whether Ramaswamy's performance left people more or less likley to vote for him, just over 78% of the votes were for more likely, while more than 3% were for less likely, and more than 18% of the votes were for neither.

But when the same question was posed regarding Pence, more than 88% of votes cast on that question indicated that Pence's performance at the forum had left people less likely to vote for him. Similarly, that number was over 84% for Hutchinson.

On the question of who respondents are most likely to back in the Republican presidential primary, more than 51% of the votes were cast in support of former President Donald Trump, who did not attend the event. DeSantis trailed with more than 32%, while Ramaswamy placed third with 13%.



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4 times Tucker Carlson said what we were ALL THINKING at the FAMiLY Leadership Summit



By Glenn Beck’s own admission, Tucker Carlson and he haven’t always been the best of friends.

However, there is something special about Tucker — and Beck knows it.

“God is using him. He has moved on him greatly. Please, add Tucker to your prayers,” Beck says, adding, “something really good is going to come out of what Tucker is doing.”

The founder of Blaze Media recently sat down with Tucker for the first time since he was ousted from Fox News, and he was impressed, to say the least.

In their one-on-one interview at the FAMiLY Leadership Summit, Beck recalled Tucker completely surprising him multiple times.

“You said something that I absolutely believe, and it is crazy to say it now, I think we absolutely blew up the Nord Stream pipeline,” Beck said.

“Of course we did,” Tucker replied.

“It’s a big deal, I mean on many levels. It was an environmental catastrophe,” Tucker added. He also believed it was “an act of vandalism,” an “attack on infrastructure,” and “an attack on our closest NATO ally, Germany, which used that pipeline to fund its entire manufacturing center.”

“We just attacked our ally,” he continued.

Beck also discussed the media’s attack on the truth with Tucker, who believes that the only time anyone becomes outraged at what someone reports on is when they're reporting the truth.

“When you say something true — that’s actually true, really true — people become hysterical and call for your murder and certainly call for your de-platforming,” Tucker said.

He also believes that while politicians are charming and many of them are quite likable, many of them, even Republicans, are incapable of answering questions.

“You’re trying to run the country and you’re mad that I’m, like, trying to get you to be more precise about your answers that you should have memorized already.”


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'The media are completely determined to suppress the truth': Tucker Carlson sits down for an interview with Glenn Beck



Tucker Carlson claimed that Washington and media figures are not bothered by lies but that they have a meltdown when people tell the truth.

"No one in Washington or in the media ... is ever outraged by a lie," Carlson told BlazeTV host Glenn Beck during a wide-ranging conversation on Friday after Carlson had interviewed multiple presidential candidates earlier in the day at the FAMiLY Leadership Summit. Blaze Media teamed up with the FAMiLY Leader for that event.

Carlson said that when someone states something true, individuals get "hysterical and call for your murder. And certainly call for your deplatforming."

"The media are completely determined to suppress the truth," Carlson declared.

Beck asked Carlson whether he believes it is possible to "stop the Deep State."

Carlson said that doing so would be "pretty tough." He said the federal agencies wield a great deal of power and that "Congress provides no oversight at all." He said the intel committees are "controlled by the intel agencies."

"Does AI make it nearly inevitable that everyone on earth loses privacy" as well as "personal protections?" Beck asked.

"Of course, yes, at best," Carlson replied, adding, "there's no privacy."

Beck's full interview with Carlson is available on BlazeTV.

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Nikki Haley says 'climate change is real' during interview with Tucker Carlson



While interviewing GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley at an event on Friday, Tucker Carlson pressed the candidate about issues such as the 2020 presidential election and climate change.

Haley indicated that she believes there were "irregularities" during the 2020 presidential election but does not believe the issues altered the results of the election — she said she thinks Joe Biden ultimately won the contest. Haley also said that election integrity is an issue that needs to be addressed.

When Carlson asked Haley if she believes climate change is caused by human actions, she said that she believes "climate change is real." Carlson pressed the question again, but Haley indicated she was not certain. "Honestly, I don't know how much is being changed or not, as much as I know that putting electric vehicles on the road is not the answer to what you're doing," she said. She also said the U.S. should be energy independent.

Haley indicated that as president, she would veto any spending measure that does not return to pre-COVID levels of spending.

Tucker Carlson interviewed Haley and multiple other GOP presidential primary candidates during the FAMiLY Leadership Summit on Friday. Blaze Media teamed up with the FAMiLY Leader for the event.

Haley previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during a portion of President Donald Trump's White House tenure. Prior to that, she had served as governor of South Carolina.

Polls indicate that former President Donald Trump has a massive lead over the rest of the GOP presidential primary field, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis trailing in a distant second place. Trump was not one of the candidates who participated in the forum on Friday.

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