Far-right influencer urges followers to 'vote Democrat' and abandon GOP over Iran war

Right-wing influencer Nick Fuentes urged his followers to abandon President Donald Trump and the Republican Party over the military attack against Iran.

The white nationalist livestreamer bitterly lambasted the 79-year-old president's decision to send American troops into Iran in a joint operation with Israeli forces, and the antisemitic conspiracy theorist singled out Jewish commentators who have publicly praised the attack.

"Something has gone horribly wrong. All of those people, with some exceptions, were 'never Trumpers' in 2016," Fuentes said. "[Ben] Shapiro didn't vote for Trump in '16, Mark Levin was critical of Trump in 2016. Where were these people when the movement was actually born, when those pillars were in place? Now all of those people are in the center. The movement is something else now, and what we need in 2028, this is our last chance, we need in 2026 for this administration to be shut the f--- down."

"What does this administration do other than cover up the Epstein files, embezzle money through government contracts and bring us to war for Israel?" he added. "This administration needs to be shut down immediately."

Fuentes then advised his "groyper" followers to withhold their votes from Republican candidates or even back Democratic candidates in November in protest of the Iran war.

"Do not vote in the midterms, and if you do, vote Democrat," Fuentes said. "F--- this. That is what the Republicans deliver. That is what our golden age looks like. The tariffs were refunded, the deportations were stopped. They wound down and withdrew the ICE from Minneapolis. What does this administration do other than embezzle money, go to war with Iran and bury the Epstein files – oh, and blackmail Harvard so they police antisemitism and ban people who criticize Israel from being in American."

"This administration needs to be shut down immediately," he added. "It has forfeited its mandate. They promised no new wars, they promised mass deportations and America first, and we're not getting any of it. So shut it down. In 2026, shut it down, and our only hope is that in 2028 in the Republican primary somebody will emerge who will actually put America first."

Trump has positioned Vice President JD Vance as his preferred successor, although Secretary of State Marco Rubio has also been floated as an heir to his MAGA movement, but Fuentes explicitly rejected both of them.

"I am not voting for the vice president and the secretary of state that brought us to war in Iran,," he said. "I won't do it – 2026, shut it down. You've to to burn the house down with them inside, metaphorically, and in '28 you better hope somebody has a prayer to run the Trump strategy and do another hostile takeover of the GOP. Otherwise, I'm going to become a Democrat, like, at that point, rather than be beholden to this country."

"That is our last chance," he added. "[In the] '28 Republican primary, we need a Trumpian figure to relight the candles. Someone needs to take the flame and take it further than Trump. He needs to take the baton and take it further and fulfill America first. That is the only way out of this at this point. Anyone that is not on this is not serious. The only takeaway that I have on all of these events, you are not pressuring this administration. All of these people told us, if Trump takes us to war in Iran, we'll just tweet about it. Yeah, well that's not really working, is it?"