leaders. >> i think he's playing a role in the absence, particularly of former president trump deciding whether or not to run in 2024. that is otherwise unparalleled, conservative right and the sort of trump, pro trump way of the republican party, sympathetic trump agnostic, he's shaping where the republican party is going. if you look at lawmakers and whether or not they are tuned to what he has to say, most of them tend to be in the house. it's up for reelection every two years, or in the senate and a cycle of reelection, or mostly in a primary as a candidate, trying to breakthrough to get to the final ballot -- they are loathed to alienate him when he can come after them swinging amplify their arrivals at the primary and finding ways to undermine them and connect them in a way that make donors shy away. tucker carlson is really playing a role and explicitly