Vice President J.D. Vance wasn’t about to hold back.
Vance grew worried about a troubling trend.
And J.D. Vance unloaded on Ben Shapiro with this brutal truth.
As Conservative Reboot reports:
During speeches at Turning Point USA’s AmFest and the Heritage Foundation, Ben Shapiro tried to write Tucker Carlson out of the conservative movement.
Shapiro smeared Carlson as trafficking in anti-Semitism, falsely accused him of ‘glazing’ Nazis and claimed Carlson had no place in the conservative movement.
Shapiro’s threw down this marker to deplatform Carlson in the hopes it would force Vice President J.D. Vance, the likely 2028 Republican Party Presidential nominee, to denounce Carlson.
Carlson and Shapiro feuded over foreign policy with Shapiro supporting the foreign policy of Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney whereas Carlson backs an America First vision for how the United States should conduct itself in global affairs.
Vice President Vance made it clear he had no interest in Shapiro’s attempt to impose woke cancel culture on the right.
In his speech at AmFest, Vance ripped Shapiro for demanding conservatives denounce Carlson.
Vance also ridiculed the idea that Shapiro would take the stage at a Charlie Kirk event and insist conservatives police free speech and deplatform Carlson.
“President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless, self-defeated purity tests… I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to de-platform… The best way to honor Charlie is that none of us here should be doing something after Charlie’s death that he didn’t do in life. He invited all of us here,” Vance added.
VP VANCE: “President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless, self-defeated purity tests… I didn’t bring a list of conservatives to denounce or to de-platform… The best way to honor Charlie is that none of us here… pic.twitter.com/jyMQotlW1O
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 21, 2025
Vance expanded on his defense of Carlson in an interview with Unherd.
The Vice President said he doesn’t agree with everything Carlson says, but that he won’t renounce his friend because the mob demands it.
“Tucker’s a friend of mine,” Vance stated. “And do I have disagreements with Tucker Carlson? Sure. I have disagreements with most of my friends, especially those who work in politics. You know this. Most people who know me know this. I’m [also] a very loyal person, and I am not going to get into the business of throwing friends under the bus.”
Vance also argued it was ridiculous for Shapiro to claim that Carlson, who campaigned for President Trump and Vance in 2024, had no place in the conservative movement.
“The idea that Tucker Carlson — who has one of the largest podcasts in the world, who has millions of listeners, who supported Donald Trump in the 2024 election, who supported me in the 2024 election — the idea that his views are somehow completely anathema to conservatism, that he has no place in the conservative movement, is frankly absurd. And I don’t think anybody actually believes it,” Vance added.
The attacks on Carlson by Shapiro and other establishment Republicans are really proxy attacks on Vance ahead of 2028.
Shapiro refused to vote for Trump in 2016 and opposed Trump in the 2024 primary.
And now Shapiro wants to drive Carlson from the conservative movement as a pre-emptive strike on J.D. Vance’s 2028 Presidential campaign.
Vance, however, stood his ground against Ben Shapiro’s cancel culture as a distraction from what Vance views as the real mission: maintaining the Trump coalition to defeat the Democrats in 2026 and 2028.
