Gabbard calls on Biden, Sanders to help put her on debate stage

[RandySF]

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) is calling on former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to urge the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to allow her onstage for the next primary debate after newly released qualifications for the event barred her from participating.

“@JoeBiden @BernieSanders I’m sure you would agree that our Democratic nominee should be a person who will stand up for what is right. So I ask that you have the courage to do that now in the face of the DNC's effort to keep me from participating in the debates. #LetTulsiDebate,” Gabbard tweeted late Friday night.

The direct call to Biden and Sanders, the two heavyweights remaining in the 2020 primary race, comes after the DNC said candidates must have garnered at least 20 percent of the delegates awarded thus far to make the debate stage in Phoenix on March 15.

Gabbard, who has refused to drop her long-shot White House bid despite dismal results in the first several nominating states, has garnered just two of the 1,385 delegates awarded thus far, falling way below the threshold. She has not qualified for a debate since November under previous standards from the DNC.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/486430-gabbard-calls-on-biden-sanders-to-help-put-her-on-debate-stage

[FreepFryer]

1. Get real, Tulsyuschka. (Nt)

[NurseJackie]

2. Well... she got a headline... but she won't be on the debate stage.

[Qutzupalotl]

3. NOPE.

She wouldn’t have qualified for this debate under the earlier rules either.

Tulsi, sit your one-delegate ass down.

[htuttle]

4. She broke ground as the first hologram to run for president

But I think we're done with her now.

[bluedye33139]

5. I really had high hopes for her.

When I was young, I spent time with the ISKCON, the international society for Krishna consciousness, and I love them. Her press material is indicated that she was affiliated with them, but the reality is she belonged to a strange cult that actually did not have any Hindu content. Children raised in the cult celebrated Christian holidays, had no Vedic instruction, had no knowledge of the Vedas or of the Gita. The only element that Chris Butler took from the Hari Krishna movement was the idea that a guru is all powerful and that members of a sect should never interact with people outside the sect.

Her entire operation is staffed with Chris Butler cult members.

Reporters in Hawaii started asking her, when did you start telling people you were a Hindu? And she did not like that.

Long story short, she is as fake as the cult she was raised in.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

6. That would be paternalistic. They should follow the rules

If she can qualify on her own, then that is fine, but if she can’t we’ll then tough shit

[cp]

7. Hey, Tulsi, here's a clue

Go away. Why are you still "in the race"? Hefty rubles pay?

[Politicub]

8. No one is interested in what Tulsi has to say.

It would be a stunt and people are sick of cheap political stunts.

[George II]

9. They should allow her on the debate stage, but not take part in the debate. Her "candidacy"....

....has become a joke.

[Cha]

10. Gabbard would never debate her opponents in Hawaii..

and Now she wants to debate?! smh

This happened after her last debate.. Oh and remember that DP one she said she didn't want attend?

Link to tweet

[MiniMe]

11. I believe the voters are telling you that Tulsi

[Dream Girl]

12. I should be on the debate stage too...I only 2 less delegates than she does