Political Friendships Amid Disagreements

Everybody knows that Tucker Carlson and I are friends, and I think it's very

obvious that Tucker has said some things that I disagree with.

He's said some things about the president of the United States that I think are

just wrong. Uh, I think yesterday somebody sent me a clip

that said that he would,

uh, support El-Sayed over Rogers.

I think El-Sayed's a crazy person, and I think whatever your views on Mike

Rogers' specific p- policy prescriptions, I'd like to have a non-crazy person

like Mike Rogers representing Michigan in the United States Senate rather than a

crazy person like El-Sayed. Uh, that said, what-- my attitude

towards this, and, and I try to, I try to practice what I preach.

And I remember when I became the vice presidential nominee, one of the hardest

things for me personally is not when people attacked me,

but when people attacked my wife, including friends of hers who knew her

heart, who knew what a good person she was.

And I remember thinking to myself, what a travesty it is that in

the United States of America, we let political disagreements define who

our friends are going to be and not going to be.

So yeah, Tucker is a friend of mine.

Tucker is a friend despite the fact that we disagree on a number of things.

And I'm not gonna play the game where I throw friends under the bus because

I have political disagreements with them.

I think that is a terrible place for the United States to go.

And if you have a disagreement with somebody politically,

even over a deeply held

issue, you should still be friends with

that person because the whole

republic depends on people of different perspectives being able to talk

to one another. That's how I try to live my life,

and I encourage everybody else to

do the same.