Where in the world is Tulsi Gabbard?

[brooklynite]

Politico

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s quixotic run for the White House isn’t sticking to a normal presidential campaign travel schedule.

Gabbard, a four-term House Democrat from Hawaii, traveled to Chicagoland soon after entering the 2020 race to visit the Chicago Kali Bari House of Spirituality and Worship before proceeding to Iowa. In early March, she scheduled a foreign policy speech at Brown University in Rhode Island and visited Love City Brewing Company in Philadelphia.

And as Gabbard jumped into the presidential campaign this winter, she was listed as a headliner for a summit of environmental activists on an island owned by Sir Richard Branson. (Gabbard’s campaign later said she planned on Skyping the conference instead.)

The underdog Democratic candidate has dropped into early caucus and primary states like Iowa and New Hampshire, and on Friday, Gabbard’s campaign announced a pair of town halls in Nevada. But Gabbard, who is Hindu, has focused more on stopping in communities with large South Asian communities in states with less 2020 influence — a scattershot approach that calls into question whether Gabbard and her noninterventionist foreign policy can make a mark on the 2020 race.

[crazytown]

1. Tulsi was featured in the Guardian yesterday

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

But requests to her campaign and Congressional office for comments went unanswered.

[DetlefK]

2. Maybe she has the strategy Giuliani had when he ran for President in 2008:

Giuliani's plan was to avoid being the flavor-of-the-week by holding back with the publicity and to keep a low profile and THEN to sweep in at the third primary (Florida) with a massive PR-campaign.

Except that he received so few votes in the first and second primary that by the time of the third nobody gave a shit about him any more.

[crazytown]

3. Maybe. The full article says

she has no plans to go to South Carolina. Where is she gonna make her stand?

[brooklynite]

5. Actually, Florida was sixth, and other candidate had anchored their campaigns by then

[DetlefK]

6. My bad.

I had remembered it that Florida had been the third. But it there where he dropped out though.

[brooklynite]

7. The sequence was:

IA: Huckabee, Romney, McCain
NH: McCain, Romney, Huckabee
MI: Romney, McCain,Huckabee
NV: Romney, Paul, McCain
SC: McCain, Huckabee, Thompson
FL: McCain, Romney, Giuliani

[Hortensis]

4. Find a supposed "Skype" appearance instead of personal

interesting. Some "headliner." Gabbard has no creds that would impress environmentalists, just a celebrity name to draw minor attention. And guessing fundraising prospects were modest. Branson of course could have donated an ex-president as speaker if he wished, but he didn't.

[Power 2 the People]

8. I think Politico answered their own question.

Such a detailed accounting of her whereabouts.

[msongs]

9. with any luck she has retired from congress and moved to a commune nt

[applegrove]

11. +100

Waiting for instructions.

[NastyRiffraff]

10. I highly doubt she'll qualify for the debates

Unless she changes her tactics very fast, but even then she has a very narrow base of support so far.