While details of the media divorce remain unclear, Democrats were quick to respond.
“Glad to hear that one of the most divisive, racist and destructive forces on television is off his prime time show,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.)
wrote on Twitter. “Tucker Carlson will not be missed.”
“This program was a sewer of countless lies and hate spewed out every single night. One of the leading election deniers and opponents of democracy in America and abroad will no longer have a primetime platform,” Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-N.J.) said
in a tweet. “That’s a good thing.”
Some Democrats were more terse in their responses: Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.)
tweeted “good riddance,” and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), who on Sunday accused Carlson and other Fox News figures of “incitement of violence,”
wrote “wow.”
The split between Fox News and Carlson comes less than one week after the
network agreed to a $787.5 million settlement in a defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems over Fox’s coverage of former President Trump’s claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.