Nonetheless, former U.S. counterterrorism chief Joe Kent told Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks podcast, pressure is on the former Fox host to change his mind. “The GOP is a disaster,” she wrote on X:The Republican Party hijacked MAGA, pretended to be America First and MAHA, and then sold us all out. But the group in the photo pushed Carlson to run, Kent told Uygur. Explaining why the group is creating a third party, Kent said “we don’t think the current political system is working just because of the results on the ground.” As for Carlson, Kent said the group pushed him to run.