Tara Setmayer, Guest Columnist

Fox News Fired Tucker Carlson. The GOP Can't.

Fox fired Carlson and the American people fired Trump, but the GOP remains firmly reliant on both.

May 9, 2023 at 11:30 AM UTC

Corrected

May 9, 2023 at 1:07 PM UTC

Tara Setmayer is a resident scholar at the University of Virginia Center for Politics and a senior adviser at the Lincoln Project. She is a former GOP congressional communications director.

The dynamic between Republicans and Carlson is similar to their relationship with Trump.
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It was the firing heard around the world, literally.

Thanks to Rupert Murdoch's global empire, Tucker Carlson's influence and ilk were far-reaching. So was the reaction to his abrupt departure from Fox News just days after the network’s $787 million defamation settlement with Dominion Voting Systems Inc.