Shut Out by the GOP: Why Tucker, Candace, & Fuentes are Pivoting
3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary
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4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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First, as they watch odious figures like Nick Fuentes embrace the Democrats again and seek to "burn down the whole (Republican) party in 2028," it's a sign that the GOP is largely slamming the door in the face of these extremists. Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are also noticeably drifting leftward. Jim and Greg are plenty glad to witness this addition by subtraction.
Next, they consider the effort by two Republican senators to woo Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman to join the GOP. He says that won't happen. Jim and Greg point out that Fetterman really only bucks the Democrats on a couple of issues but that's enough to make him a pariah on the left. They also consider Fetterman's options as he considers re-election in 2028.
Then they get a good laugh as Sec. Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine reassure Americans that Iran does not have "kamikaze dolphins" as weapons in the Persian Gulf. They also consider where the war stands four weeks into this cease-fire.
Finally, Jim and Greg preview what the next couple of weeks will look like on the 3 Martini Lunch.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the three martini lunch. |
| 0:04.4 | Grab a stole next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National |
| 0:08.9 | Review. |
| 0:10.6 | Three martini's coming up. |
| 0:13.1 | So glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the three martini lunch. |
| 0:17.4 | And Jim, this is a midterm election year. |
| 0:20.6 | It is a year where when the Republicans have |
| 0:23.7 | the White House, the Republicans are not expected to do that great in the midterms. We will see. |
| 0:27.9 | We've got a few months to go. The numbers aren't looking fantastic. But the Republicans can |
| 0:33.7 | score one major victory already, or at least they're very close to scoring a major victory. |
| 0:38.3 | Last year, when Tucker Carlson really went insane, he'd been drifting there for a while, |
| 0:43.3 | but he went crazy. We had the whole can of seven things, which is still going on. |
| 0:47.4 | More recently, Megan Kelly has kind of come on to this train of turning against Israel |
| 0:53.0 | and turning against Trump. |
| 0:55.4 | And when Tucker had Nick Fuentes on his podcast and didn't ask any tough questions, |
| 1:01.9 | there was blowback from the right on that. |
| 1:04.1 | That led to Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation defending Tucker. |
| 1:07.5 | There was a big blow up about that. |
| 1:09.0 | And so the question was going to be, well, the Democrats |
| 1:11.3 | have largely accepted anti-Semitism, and especially as it relates to Israel policy. That's the |
| 1:16.3 | reason they hate John Fetterman, who we'll talk about in a different martini today. And so they've just |
| 1:22.1 | basically surrendered to it in a large extent. So what would the Republicans do? Are they going to |
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