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Tulsi Gabbard Endorses Trump, Joins Fellow Ex-Dem RFK Jr.

Tulsi Gabbard gestures in West Des Moines, Iowa, April 22, 2023.(Eduardo Munoz/Reuters)
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By David Zimmermann
August 26, 2024 3:53 PM
Former U.S. representative Tulsi Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party
to become an independent in 2022, has endorsed former president Donald
Trump days after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his campaign and threw
his support behind the Republican presidential nominee.

Gabbard announced her endorsement on Monday after Trump spoke at a
National Guard Association conference in Detroit, where he criticized
President Joe Biden’s handling of the military withdrawal from
Afghanistan three years ago this week.

“I am committed to doing all that I can to send President Trump back to
the White House, where he can once again serve us as our
commander-in-chief,” Gabbard told the crowd at the same event, saying he
is capable of keeping the U.S. out of war.

Having once served in the Hawaii Army National Guard herself, Gabbard
noted Trump sees “war as a last resort” and that he, unlike Vice
President Kamala Harris, “understands the grave responsibility that a president” bears for the lives of U.S. servicemembers.

Trump said he’s “honored to officially welcome” Gabbard to his campaign efforts, complimenting her “great common sense, great spirit,” and patriotism.

Before her high-profile exit from the Democratic Party two years ago,
Gabbard served as U.S. representative for Hawaii’s 2nd congressional
district from 2013 to 2021 and ran for the Democratic nomination in the
2020 presidential election. During a Democratic primary debate, she
slammed Harris for her record on criminal prosecutions as a California prosecutor.

“She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then
laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana,”
Gabbard said of Harris in 2019. “She blocked evidence that would have
freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do
so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as
cheap labor for the state of California, and she fought to keep [a]
cash-bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of
way.”

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The Democrat-turned-independent, who has since been critical of the vice president and Democratic nominee, was reportedly tapped to help Trump
prepare for his first debate against Harris next month. That debate is scheduled for September 10 on ABC News, though Trump suggested Sunday
night that he could skip the debate because of the news network’s
apparent bias against him.

The Trump campaign confirmed Gabbard’s involvement in its debate prep
earlier this month.

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