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Tucker Carlson: “That's why Trump got elected in 2016, is why he's president…”

Featuring: Tucker Carlson, Conservative, Right-wing | Political Commentator, Former Fox News Host | National

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FULL SPEECH: Tucker on the America First Movement & New "Deplatforming" Agenda of Some on the Right

Published | Video Starts at 39:25

Orient the Republican Party around the single most popular and true message ever articulated by an American politician, which is put your own country first. That's why Trump got elected in 2016, is why he's president now. America first. And don't think of everything in narrow, partisan terms. That's a trap. Most people agree with that. Most Americans have more in common with each other than they disagree on. (39:25)

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Claims Trump's election was due to America First policies.

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