Valuetainment - ＂Pick a Side＂ – Former Daily Wire CEO Says JD Vance Must Distance Himself From Tucker

00:00:00.000 Tucker's son works for Vance did did Tulsi Vance and Kent had a friendship had a relationship

00:00:08.180 right sometimes they'll say that's the group right there Rubio is kind of like look guys I don't even

00:00:13.140 want to run in 2020 he keeps avoiding it look I don't want to run I don't want to run I don't

00:00:16.300 want to run you know he's gonna run okay and JD I don't know you know we're gonna be thinking about

00:00:20.840 maybe I gotta spend time with the kids everyone's bullshitting saying all this stuff they have to

00:00:23.920 run there's no way these guys are not gonna run you gotta run you reach for the ring so let me ask

00:00:28.620 you, you know, is it fair to say that you and Ben are 90% on the same page politically,

00:00:34.440 ideology-wise? Yeah, there's probably no one in public life with whom I agree more on politics

00:00:39.120 than Ben. Okay, perfect. So let's leave it at that. So if that's the case, would you trust a

00:00:45.420 J.D. for 2028? Not today. I'm not saying that I can't support J.D. in 28. J.D. plays his politics

00:00:54.500 incredibly close. JD is a very peculiar figure in our politics in that we don't really know

00:01:02.860 exactly what he thinks about some of the most important issues happening, not just like

00:01:06.260 abstract ideological issues, but what he actually thinks about real world things that are happening

00:01:10.560 in real time right now. And what does JD really think about the president's actions in Iran,

00:01:15.400 just as one example? I don't know. I can make a case both ways, and I can point you to some

00:01:20.940 evidence both ways. I think JD has played it too close and lost the trust of a lot of people who

00:01:31.260 he will need in order to win. Not too late to recover that. You're going to have to give people

00:01:36.360 some visibility into what you think, and it's going to have to be the things that they need it

00:01:39.700 to be. I think that JD is too online. I think he's so perpetually on X that he sometimes misreads

00:01:48.740 where the movement actually is, as so many people did, say, in the Massey primary.

00:01:55.380 Now, it may very well be that online is a leading indicator. I don't take from Massey's loss that

00:02:03.860 Twitter isn't real life. I more take from Massey's loss that Twitter isn't real life yet.

00:02:08.760 And obviously, influence takes time to actually materialize. But I think the vice president is

00:02:13.840 too perpetually online. I think he's played his politics too close and lost people whom he needs.

00:02:19.660 And I think his relationship with Tucker is a massive problem for him. I don't begrudge him

00:02:23.580 not turning on a friend. Friendship's an incredibly important thing. I think that

00:02:29.320 J.D. owes a lot of his political career to Tucker making early investments in him.

00:02:35.920 I think he probably likes Tucker on a personal level. I think it's a good thing not to

00:02:39.700 lightly turn on your friends. But Tucker's at war with your actual administration at this point.

00:02:45.400 If you're still advocating for Tucker instead of defending the administration against the

00:02:54.180 charges of someone like Tucker, then you're sort of misreading the job, in my opinion.

00:02:59.660 So can J.D. win? I don't think J.D. can win today. But the election isn't today. Will J.D. be able to

00:03:06.480 win by 2028 yeah you can it's a lot of time in politics for course correction and showing us

00:03:11.580 who he it's going to come down to jd has to show us who he really is and who he really is has to

00:03:15.280 be able to keep together the trump coalition or build a different coalition that's capable of

00:03:19.640 victory right now i don't think he's on a track to do that i think marco is far more likely to

00:03:25.500 keep the trump coalition together how will they get marco so think like the let's be the devil's

00:03:31.160 advocate. How do you attack Marco? What you're going to say of Marco is that he's a liberal.

00:03:37.400 What you're going to say of Marco is that he's squishy. What you're going to say about Marco,

00:03:41.100 and you're going to say that because you want to set JD up as the real true

00:03:44.440 voice of dissident right-wing conservatism. I don't think it sticks though, because

00:03:49.000 Rubio's tenure as Secretary of State has been so masculine, has been so strong.

00:03:54.900 um uh also some things just come down to like you'd like you know just like uh you home part of

00:04:03.080 the most storied baseball franchise in the country so you know that uh

00:04:09.200 at the at the end of the day there's like a um

00:04:14.500 man i lost that thought baseball and rubio is a pretty good thought anytime you're talking

00:04:23.500 about a Cuban guy. No, you said liberal. You were going liberal. They're going to say he's a liberal.

00:04:27.760 Then you're going to say last 10 years. He had an incredible record. He did so well last 10 years.

00:04:32.140 Well, as with baseball, the actual history of the sport can tell us a lot. In the last 120 years,

00:04:38.700 no sitting vice president has sought his party's nomination to be president or to be the party's

00:04:44.020 nominee for president with the endorsement of the sitting president and failed to gain it.

00:04:48.900 but twice we've had a sitting vice president seek his party's nomination without the endorsement of

00:04:55.320 the sitting president of his own party and failed to to get it so a lot of marco's prospects are

00:05:01.080 going to come down to does trump endorse jd vance to be his successor if trump sits it out it's going

00:05:08.120 to be a i think it's going to be a true open primary i just understood what you just said so

00:05:12.200 so god so who were the ones that didn't endorse the vp oh man i know pence has not won so it's

00:05:16.840 not like because you he went directly against them but i'm wondering who that is who the other

00:05:21.060 uh man what were the vps because we'd have to look this up reagan supported bush okay no early

00:05:28.440 it's earlier than than you and i okay so these are names that maybe is not our time for us to

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Valuetainment - June 19, 2026

＂Pick a Side＂ – Former Daily Wire CEO Says JD Vance Must Distance Himself From Tucker

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