Tulsi Gabbard—a former Democratic lawmaker and 2020 presidential candidate who has since left the party—endorsed former President Donald Trump on Monday, years after the sometimes-controversial politician became nationally known for sparring with Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2020 primaries.
Former Democratic lawmaker Tulsi Gabbard backed former President Donald Trump for president Monday.
Gabbard said Trump sees “war as a last resort” and she knows he “understands the grave responsibility that a president” bears for the lives of those serving their country—which Gabbard said is not true for Harris.
Gabbard left the Democratic Party to become an independent in 2022, about two decades after she first got into politics, calling Democrats at the time an “elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness.”
Gabbard has become a frequent guest on conservative news outlets and a vocal critic of Democrats since leaving the party, and even expressed interest in being Trump’s running mate earlier this year, saying she would “be honored to do so.”
Gabbard, who was a member of the Hawaii National Guard and deployed to Iraq in 2005, endorsed Trump at the National Guard Association conference in Detroit.
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