- Tucker Carlson said GOP candidates shouldn't "emulate" GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham.
- Carlson advised candidates not to focus on foreign issues as much as Graham.
Tucker Carlson told Republican candidates that they shouldn't try to "emulate" GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham.
"Okay, so just to be clear to Republican candidates, that was Lindsey Graham. Your job is to make fun of Lindsey Graham and to disavow Lindsey Graham," Carlson said on Friday. "Your job is not to emulate Lindsey Graham and steal his talking points and if you do emulate Lindsey Graham and steal those talking points, you will lose and the losing candidates did just that."
Prior to his remarks, Carlson played a clip of Graham discussing the war in Ukraine.
"The question is, "Can we do more and should we do more?" The answer is yes to both," Graham said in the clip.
The Fox News host said that candidates who focused on foreign policy would lose their races, adding that voters did not care as much about those issues.
Carlson pointed to candidates who spoke in favor of foreign policy measures like supporting Ukraine and those who focused on domestic issues.
"So, compare what they were saying to what, for example, Joe Kent was saying in Washington state when he won his primary there as a challenger," Carlson said, playing a clip of Kent discussing "ramifications" of supporting Ukraine.
The host said that speaking to what Americans are concerned about will help the GOP win more races in the upcoming election.
"So, if more Republicans in November say what you just heard Joe Kent say, they will win if they talk about the issues that people actually care about in this country, issues that are relevant to their lives, they will win. That's how they won those school board seats in Florida. They weren't talking about Ukraine. They were talking about the issues that matter to the voters in Florida: family safety, happiness, the right of parents to decide what their kids learn in school. That message wins," Carlson said.