Nick Fuentes, the highly controversial white nationalist roiling the MAGA movement, took a victory lap over Vice President JD Vance, following his interview with Tucker Carlson last week.
Fuentes has long been a fierce critic of Vance and has made deeply racist comments in the past about Vance’s interracial and mixed-faith marriage. Carlson’s platforming of Fuentes on his show has led to an escalating battle on the right as many argue that such blatant hate speech should remain outside the realm of mainstream MAGA, whereas Carlson has let it in.
“He’s getting squeezed because the Groypers are on the one hand saying, ‘Hey, listen, fat boy, we want America first. You want to run for president? We want to hear you say America first.’ And on the other side, he’s got his donors, and they’re saying, ‘They’re horrible anti-Semites. You have to disavow them. You have to forcefully condemn them. Condemn Tucker. Condemn the Groypers,’” Fuentes began, referring to his followers, who are widely known as “Groypers.”
“Now, if Vance condemns the Groypers, we are deploying to Iowa. Raise your right hand. I swear I’m going to move to Iowa and New Hampshire and Nevada and South Carolina and one primary after the next,” Fuentes continued in the clip flagged online by hate monitor Right Wing Watch, adding:
And we will go to every town hall. We will go to every meet and greet where there’s four or five people, and we will be there. And we’ll do it for free. People will drive there for free, and they will follow Vance around and ask him, “When will you put America first? Why would you condemn the young white men of America and sell out to our elites?” We’ll be there. We’ll be in Iowa. We’ll be in every primary and caucus state. So he doesn’t want to condemn the Groypers.
Fuentes’s rising influence on the right has been on vivid display in recent months as he’s joined prominent podcasts and is reaching an ever-growing audience. Following his appearance on Carlson’s show, many of Fuentes’ shocking past statements, ranging from Holocaust denial to sexual violence to his insults of Vance, have gone viral yet again, highlighting why he has long been relegated to the fringe of the right.
Below are some of those clips:
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