WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii introduced Tuesday that she’s leaving the Democratic Celebration as a result of she mentioned it is “now underneath the whole management of an elitist cabal of warmongers pushed by cowardly wokeness.”
In a video statement posted on social media, Gabbard, 41, accused Democrats of dividing the nation “by racializing each situation, stoking anti-white racism” and “actively working to undermine our God-given freedoms enshrined in our Structure.”
“The Democrats of immediately are hostile to individuals of religion and spirituality,” she continued. “They demonize the police and defend criminals on the expense of law-abiding People. The Democrats of immediately consider in open borders and weaponize the nationwide safety state to go after political opponents. Above all else, the Democrats of immediately are dragging us ever nearer to nuclear conflict.”
Gabbard mentioned that the Democratic Celebration stands for a authorities of, by and for the “highly effective elite” and referred to as on her fellow “independent-minded Democrats” to depart the occasion as properly.
Her feedback aligned way more with the views held by Republican elected officers, who’ve blamed Democrats for an increase in crime and for a surge in migrants getting into the nation on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Although Gabbard ran for the Democratic nomination for president within the 2020 cycle, she has typically questioned the place the occasion has stood on numerous points and has criticized Democratic leaders.
Earlier than Gabbard launched her bid, Hillary Clinton, the occasion’s 2016 presidential nominee, urged in 2019 that she believed that Republicans have been grooming the previous congresswoman to run as a third-party candidate. Clinton did not point out Gabbard by title, however mentioned she believed one candidate is “the favourite of the Russians.”
Gabbard suspended her presidential marketing campaign in March 2020 and endorsed Joe Biden. She served within the Home from 2013 to 2021 and because the vice chair of the Democratic Nationwide Committee from 2013 to 2016. She is a fight veteran with deployments to the Center East and Africa and at present serves as a lieutenant colonel within the Military Reserve.
Since her White Home run, Gabbard has often appeared as a political commentator on Fox Information, the place she has principally railed in opposition to Democrats.
