Tulsi Gabbard: the progressive 2020 hopeful praised by Bannon and the right

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Tulsi Gabbard: the progressive 2020 hopeful praised by Bannon and the right

Gabbard’s unorthodox positions and conflicts with fellow Democrats could emerge as stumbling blocks in her campaign

Tom McCarthy in New York
Tue 19 Mar 2019 05.00 GMT

Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is not afraid to take a stand.

For a promising young Democrat in 2015, one of the seemingly worst places to be was on the wrong side of Hillary Clinton, who – barring some bizarre twist – was on her way to becoming America’s next president.

Yet Gabbard, then a 34-year-old second-term congresswoman from Hawaii with both combat experience and a radiant smile, had the temerity to cross Clinton by calling for additional debates between Clinton and her opponent in the Democratic primary race, Bernie Sanders.

Retribution was swift. Gabbard was kicked off the Democratic National Committee leadership and disinvited from the party’s first presidential debate. “It’s very dangerous when we have people in positions of leadership who use their power to try to quiet those who disagree with them,” she said at the time.

In retrospect, the clash clearly looks bad for the Democratic party, whose rush to nominate Clinton did not work out. But the conflict also scans as a red flag for Gabbard, whose defections would later multiply, establishing her independence but scrambling her political identity and fueling questions about her conservative past.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/18/tulsi-gabbard-2020-progressive-steve-bannon-right

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. This is one of several waste of time campaigns.

There’s no point in this run except to help take the wind out of our sails.

She has zero chance.

[Iliyah]

2. I don't like her.

[AlexSFCA]

3. Biden said she is not qualified, I agree

[Thekaspervote]

4. The headline pretty much says it all

[dalton99a]

5. She doesn't belong in the Democratic Party.

Link to tweet

[msongs]

6. then she refuses any debates with progressive democrats who primary her. nt

[Cha]

7. "progressive".