AFTERMATH: The Tucker-Huckabee Debate | Guest: Mike Huckabee | 2/26/26

Steve Deace Show

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News, News Commentary, Religion & Spirituality, Politics

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🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Steve and the crew discuss various Trump administration officials' statements on Iran's nuclear capabilities and why the calculus for a potential attack is much different now than it was last summer. Then, after Tucker Carlson politely declined to appear, Steve lays out some of the questions he would have asked Carlson in the aftermath of his interview/debate with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. Then, in Hour Two, Ambassador Huckabee joins the program for a retrospective on his debate with Carlson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And greetings.
0:21.5	Happy Thursday.
0:23.3	Welcome to the Steve Day Show here, live and on demand on Blaze TV radio and podcast.
0:28.8	I'm Steve Days back here.
0:31.3	Back for another home game after some travels back and forth to Dallas to help the Blaze with its State of the Union coverage.
0:37.8	Todd Erz and Aaron McIntyre did a more than capable job filling in for me yesterday as I was traveling back home. Thank you both for that. Appreciate it. We were just shooting for capable. So we got more? That's more than capable? More than capable. All right. Nice job, Aaron. We did it. We did it. Yeah, this is what happens when you actually, your source material for the first hour of the show is actually Steve Dase.
1:00.6	You probably had no idea.
1:01.5	You were here anyways.
1:02.3	No, no.
1:03.1	So you guys used a lot of the comment here I used on the blaze?
1:05.8	Is that what you did?
1:06.4	It was 12 years ago yesterday that you published rules for Patriots. Was it really? Yeah. And so we went through each of the 10 commandments for political warfare and applied those to the state of the union. That's a great hook, guys. 3.97 GPA. That was Aaron's idea. Yeah. What was the final score? 3.97 GPA. Very high. Yeah. That's a great hook.
1:30.3	I mean, I would have never thought of that in a million years.
1:31.5	So good job out of you.
1:34.3	Aaron, that rises above more than capable.
1:36.0	That borders are good.
1:36.9	Genius.
1:37.6	Genius. Genius.
1:38.5	Genius.
1:39.6	Good.
1:40.0	Genius.
1:40.8	Good.
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