"I kind of like Vivek," the former Fox News host told an audience at Turning Point USA's AmericaFest event, referring to Vivek Ramaswamy. "Everyone beats up on Vivek for being ‘he’s a phony’ and all this stuff."
"I’ve covered a lot of campaigns going back to 1992 and I’ve noticed this in many candidates and I noticed it in him – the process of running for president and speaking three times a day and having people throw hostile questions in your faces causes you to change – they all change during these campaigns for real, inside," Carlson continued. "And I feel like Vivek’s positions have gotten much more sincere since the beginning of this."
"I watch him with Nikki Haley and I’m like this is a guy who’s very offended by her views for real, he’s not attacking her because she’s a woman, he’s attacking her because he actually thinks her views are terrible for the country he lives in and I love that," Carlson concluded.