David Gilbert

Vance decides that he is going to run in 2028, which looks like he will, and if the GOP nominate him, then Fuentes will unleash a campaign using his supporters to undermine that candidacy.

Sure, it's really interesting and it's not something that is the same as it was, you know, five, six, seven years ago.

When he was coming up after Unite the Right and when he kind of began getting noticed, he was viewed as this kind of outlier, this fringe figure who was not really taken with any level of seriousness.

And so he was not really being discussed in the same terms as figures like Charlie Kirk, you know, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens.

More recently, those same figures have had to pay attention to him because his audience has grown, especially in the last six months.

He has become incredibly more powerful and he knows it too.

So he's able to leverage that to get people to pay attention to him.

We saw obviously Tucker Carlson interviewed him recently, which is the most high profile interview he's had to date.

We've seen figures like Alex Jones, Candace Owens, they've all had him on their podcasts and they have varying levels of arguments between themselves.

His main antagonist and the person he fought with most, of course, was Charlie Kirk, dating back to 2019 when

They began what Fuentes labeled the Gruyper War, Gruyper being the name for the people who support Nick Fuentes.

So what he did then was when Charlie Kirk was going around to colleges speaking and debating with people, he would get his supporters to go there and question Charlie Kirk about his support for Israel, question him on immigration, question him on the things that Fuentes believed Charlie Kirk was not being supported.

questioned enough about and where he felt he could be attacked because he wasn't being, you know, conservative enough.

He wasn't being America first enough.

Tucker Carlson said that, you know, he was just talking to Nick Fuentes and that he doesn't necessarily agree with all the things he said.

But at the same time, he's engaging with him.

And I think for Fuentes, that is the win.

That's what he wants.

He wants people to be able to see him.

Of course, I think people like Tucker Carlson are afraid of being left behind because they clearly understand that Fuentes has tapped into something.