Tucker Carlson will not run for president despite rumors to the contrary, former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has said.

Speculation about the conservative podcaster’s political ambitions intensified earlier this month after Greene posted a photo of herself with Carlson and a collection of MAGA dissidents, announcing the birth of a new movement.

The group — which included former Trump official Joe Kent and Rep. Thomas Massie — has publicly broken with President Donald Trump over the ongoing war in Iran. Some members have also strongly opposed the administration’s handling of the Epstein files.

“We said no more foreign wars and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise,” Greene wrote in the August 1 post. “But he’s betrayed us all. Our commitment is America First for all Americans, right, left, and center,” she continued…The movement has begun.”

Greene, who resigned from Congress in January after Trump threatened to support a primary challenger, told Politico that enthusiasm for the still-amorphous political project has been “overwhelming”— and claimed that her phone has been ringing off the hook.

“Our argument is the two-party system is a complete and total failure,” Greene told the outlet, saying the group was still discussing its next steps. “I am 100 percent totally completely disgusted with both parties.”

But Carlson, she insisted, will not mount a White House bid.

“Tucker, he’s not running for president,” Greene told the outlet. “He said that publicly. He said that privately.”

Earlier this summer, after declaring that he no longer supported the GOP, Carlson said in an interview that he was “of course” not planning to run for president.

Still, two people familiar with the matter told Politico that the former Fox News host’s calculation could shift under the right circumstances.

“He won’t run against JD Vance. He will very likely run if Trump endorses [Marco] Rubio,” one unnamed source said. Carlson has publicly said that he likes the vice president and counts him as a friend.

Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said earlier this month that he and others urged Carlson to throw his hat in the ring. “All of us at one point in time told Tucker he needs to run, and Tucker’s been pretty public that he’s not going to run,” Kent said on The Young Turks.

Some close to the White House, however, appear unfazed by the prospect of Carlson joining the 2028 field. As one put it to Politico: “He’s not building a new party, he’s building a new subscription model.”

Multiple recent polls indicate that the Iran war remains deeply unpopular. Even among MAGA voters, support has dropped substantially, according to a July Politico survey.

Whether that frustration can be converted into enduring support for a new third party, however, remains an open question. Historically, third-party movements have fared poorly in national U.S. elections.