{"id":22477,"date":"2026-05-10T19:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/could-tucker-carlson-hijack-the-gop-and-take-the-white-house\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T19:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T19:22:15","slug":"could-tucker-carlson-hijack-the-gop-and-take-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/could-tucker-carlson-hijack-the-gop-and-take-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Tucker Carlson hijack the GOP \u2014 and take the White House?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker Carlson has risen to 7 percent in the 2028 Republican presidential nomination prediction markets, despite having no campaign, committee, or party apparatus, due to his large independent media presence and the dissatisfaction of Trump&#8217;s base with his declining approval ratings&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/white-house\/5870707-tucker-carlson-2028-presidential-run\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker Carlson has risen to 7 percent in the 2028 Republican presidential nomination prediction markets, despite having no campaign, committee, or party apparatus, due to his large independent media presence and the dissatisfaction of Trump&#8217;s base with his declining approval ratings&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}