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Tucker Carlson Will Not Run for President in 2024, Says Attorney

An attorney for Tucker Carlson sent a cease-and-desist letter to the “Draft Tucker PAC” to stop activities after it released a video that sought to encourage the former Fox News host to run for president in 2024, saying that Carlson will not make a 2024 White House bid “under any circumstances.”

Cease-and-Desist Letter Sent to “Draft Tucker PAC”

“It has come to Mr. Carlson’s attention that you are soliciting contributions and donor contact information from the public by representing that the funds will be used to draft Mr. Tucker to run for President in 2024,” Carlson’s lawyer Harmeet Dhillon wrote in a letter, according to multiple news outlets.

The letter then declared that Carlson, who was let go by Fox News in late April, “will not run for President in 2024 under any circumstances, and therefore your misrepresentations are damaging to Mr. Carlson and defrauding his supporters.”

“If you do not immediately cease and desist your efforts to solicit money to ‘draft’ Mr. Carlson, we will use every legal means at our disposal to vindicate his rights and protect his supporters from these misrepresentations,” the letter continued.

Draft Tucker PAC Ceases Activities After Legal Threat from Carlson

The letter was sent to the PAC’s executive director Charlie Kolean, a longtime Republican consultant, and other officials within the organization. It claimed the PAC is fraudulently using Carlson to fundraise and potentially collect data for users.

After the letter was sent, the Draft Tucker PAC told news outlets that it asked Newsmax to pull the “Draft Tucker PAC” commercials that are currently running on the channel.

“Tucker’s attorney has contacted us to let us know that Tucker is not a candidate for president nor has any intentions of running and asked us to cease all activities on his behalf. We are going to honor that request,” Kolean said in a statement to The Hill.

PAC Raised $212 So Far

Chris Ekstrom, the PAC’s chairman, told the outlet that the PAC raised about $212 so far and that he put in $35,000 of his own cash into the effort. He said that the $212 will be given to a charity or back to the donors.

In the statement, Ekstrom appeared to criticize Dhillon and said she is a “ridiculous Wanna Be Failed Politician & TV lawyer,” adding she is a “failed politician that wouldn’t know or understand a good political move unless it’s the immediate gratification of grandstanding for fools & know-nothings on Twitter.”

Dhillon had attempted to unseat Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel earlier this year but came up short. Previously, she was a top official in the California Republican Party and also has represented a number of high-profile conservatives.

Stay tuned for updates on this developing story.

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