Tucker Carlson believes the 2020 election was stolen due to changes in voting rules during the pandemic.
The Republican National Committee conducted an investigation concluding Democrats exploited COVID-19 to aid Biden’s victory, and recommended election integrity measures to prevent fraud.
“It was 100% stolen. Are you joking?” Carlson said. “They completely changed the way people vote right before the election, on the basis of COVID, which had nothing to do with –“
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“So in that way it was rigged, meaning manipulated?” Lex Fridman cut in.
Carlson emphasized the importance of information access for democracy.
“One hundred percent,” Carlson said. “Then you censor the information people are allowed to get? Anyone who complains about COVID? Which is like, by the way, it might’ve hurt Trump.”
“I mean you could play it many different ways. You can’t have censorship in a democracy, by definition,” Carlson said.
He added, “Here’s how it works. The people rule. They vote for representatives to carry their agenda to the capital city and get it enacted. That’s how they’re in charge. And then, every few years, they get to reassess the performance of those people in an election. In order to do that, they need access — unfettered access — to information. And no one, particularly not people who are already in power, is allowed to tell them what information they can have.”
“They have to have all information that they want, whether the people in charge want it or don’t want it or think it’s true or think it’s false, it doesn’t matter. And the second you don’t have that, you don’t have a democracy. It’s not a free election, period,” he said.
Polling has revealed that public trust in media and elected officials has drastically declined in recent years.
Joe Rogan and Newt Gingrich have also criticized misinformation around COVID-19.