Laura Loomer suggests Heritage Foundation and Tucker Carlson are backing James Fishback's campaign in a “political play” to “get revenge on Donald Trump”

Loomer: “You have to ask yourself, is this a bigger play to split the vote so that we get a Democrat as governor?”

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From the January 22, 2026, edition of Loomer Unleashed streamed on Rumble

LAURA LOOMER (HOST): You got to ask yourself, what does it say about his so called supporters, if they're even real, when — I mean, and you see people like Tucker Carlson — like what is the motivation of somebody like Tucker Carlson endorsing a candidate who they know isn't even eligible per the Florida Constitution to be the governor of Florida. Right? So, it seems to me like there's some greater political play here, not just to get revenge on Byron, but to also get revenge on Donald Trump. Right? To try to make it seem like Donald Trump really doesn't carry the weight that people think that he carries. 

And when you look at the people that are behind Fishback, where it's The Heritage Foundation, which has undermined President Trump, Tucker Carlson, who has undermined President Trump and has, you know, false — in the past, stated in text messages that have been released in the court documents, especially in the Dominion case, that he hates President Trump. Right? This is all now a matter of public record. You have to ask yourself, is this a bigger play to split the vote so that we get a Democrat as governor? 

Because it never would have been possible to have a Democrat governor after the 1 million voter registration lead in the state of Florida, as you know. But if you were able to convince a million or so, or maybe even more than a million Republican voters to stay home by making them, you know, dislike Byron, or convincing them that a candidate who isn't even eligible to be governor is running so that you create some false controversy when people find out he's not even eligible to be on the ballot, then you suppress the vote, and we could potentially get a Democrat governor.