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The Senate fundraising arm of the Republican Party send blood pressure spiking on Christmas Eve in an attempt to juice a few more dollars out of the MAGA base.

Could Tucker Carlson be President Trumps running mate? read the subject line of a fundraising blast shortly after 3 p.m. on Sunday.

The body of the email boasted of TWO MAJOR announcements coming from the ex-Fox News star. Nothing in the email answered the question posed in the subject linea GOP curiosity gap, holiday editioninstead touting Carlsons rebrand under The Tucker Carlson Network, or TCN.

Earlier in the day, Carlson released a 7-minute interview with disgraced actor Kevin Spacey. Coincidentally, the pair discussed a 2024 ticket with Carlson serving as VP.

Its unclear if this fundraising ploy from the National Republican Senatorial Committee should be taken any more seriously.

Officials from the NRSC did not return a request for comment. Carlson also did not respond when reached by text message.

In a November podcast interview, Donald Trump said he would consider picking Carlson as his VP.

Carlson, who still holds the record for the most viewed cable news show in American history, responded to Trumps speculation by indicating he wouldnt necessarily love the vetting process involved.

The 54-year-old heir to a TV dinner and frozen poultry product fortune said at the time hes a total sucker for Trump, but also might have some things in his past hed prefer to hide.

I havent led a life that prepares a person for politics, Carlson, a Beltway fixture and still a highly influential voice in the modern GOP, told fellow Fox News expatriate Megyn Kelly on her podcast. I dont think I have any, like, horrible skeletons or anything. Its not that. Its just that thats not how my brain works. Ive never done anything like that. I cant imagine spending time with politicians.

Carlson said he also gets along with Trump really well, and [the] closer I am physically to Trump, like if Im with him in the room, I always love Trump and I think its impossible not to, and you know the experience, he told Kelly, whom Trump once called highly overrated (he also infamously insinuated she was menstruating during the first GOP debate of the 2016 campaign). Hes just charming, Carlson added.

For his part, Carlson privately called Trump a demonic force and a destroyer, said he hated him passionately, and was very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights following the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to text messages unearthed in discovery for Dominion Voting Systems $787 million lawsuit against Fox News.

Im really grateful for what I have, but I dont think, like, America needs me, Carlson told Kelly, rounding out the discussion around the previous VP speculation, and I dont want to become an egomaniac or a solipsist, and thats what you become when you start thinking that way.

Roger Sollenberger contributed reporting for this story.

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GOP Floats Tucker Carlson As Donald Trump's 2024 Vice President Pick - The Daily Beast