Tulsi Gabbard

The former US presidential hopeful said the party is driven by 'cowardly wokeness' and is stoking 'anti-white racism'.

The results will also impact the second half of President Joe Biden’s term in office. I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are… “I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party that is now under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoke anti-white racism,” Gabbard said.

Former Hawaii congresswoman and 2020 presidential hopeful says party is dominated by those espousing 'cowardly wokeness'

In a debate during the 2020 presidential race, Gabbard caught flak from then candidate Kamala Harris for not calling the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, a “war criminal”, after she attacked Harris on her record as a California prosecutor. In 2013, Gabbard was criticized for voting against a bipartisan House resolution condemning anti-Muslim violence in the state of Gujarat. In 2012, Gabbard became the first Samoan-American voting member and Hindu elected to Congress, but her views have often sat uncomfortably with the Democratic party.

The former congresswoman from Hawaii tweeted a thread ripping Democrats and explaining her departure, which follows years of her moving toward the right.

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Former US Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday announced she was quitting the Democratic Party and urged fellow 'independent-minded' Democrats to ...

In another post, Gabbard mentioned that the decision to quit the Democratic Party was not made in a haste. "I’m calling on my fellow common sense independent minded Democrats to join me in leaving the Democratic Party. In the 30-minute video, Tulsi did not hold back and took the Democrat Party to the cleaners by referring to it as an 'elitist cabal of warmongers'.

The big picture: Gabbard, who sought the Democratic nomination during the 2020 election, supports policy positions, particularly in the foreign policy realm, ...

[Tulsi Gabbard suspends presidential campaign, endorses Biden](https://www.axios.com/2020/03/19/tulsi-gabbard-drops-out-2020-presidential-race) Tulsi Gabbard](https://www.axios.com/2019/10/25/tulsi-gabbard-re-election-congress-hawaii-2020-president) announced Tuesday that she is leaving the Democratic Party. [Politics & Policy](https://www.axios.com/politics-policy)

The former US Presidential candidate hit out at the democratic party for being “of, by and for the powerful elite” and not “of, by and for the people”.

Tulsi Gabbard was the first-ever Hindu American to be elected to the US House of Representatives in 2013 from Hawaii and was subsequently elected for four consecutive terms. Instead, it stands for a government of, by, and for the powerful elite,” she said. “If you can no longer stomach the direction that so-called woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, I invite you to join me,” she said. “I believe in a government that is of, by, and for the people. Former US Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard - who was the first Hindu-American to run for the White House in 2020 - on Tuesday announced her exit from the Democratic Party ahead of next month's midterm elections. Above all else, the Democrats of today are dragging us ever closer to nuclear war”

Tulsi Gabbard had found herself increasingly estranged within the Democratic Party following her failed candidacy bid in the 2020 Presidential primary.

“I believe in a government that is of the people, by the people, and for the people. “The Democrats of today believe in open borders and weaponise the national security state to go after political opponents. “The Democrats of today divide us by racialising every issue, stoking anti-white racism, and are actively working to undermine our God-given freedoms enshrined in our Constitution,” she said in another tweet.

Tulsi Gabbard, who retired from the House of Representatives last year, made the announcement on Twitter.

“I believe in a government that is of the people, by the people, and for the people. Above all else, the Democrats of today are dragging us ever closer to nuclear war,” said Ms. They demonise the police and protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans,” she noted. Gabbard was the first-ever Hindu to be elected to the U. Gabbard said in a tweet. Gabbard, 41, who retired from the House of Representatives last year, made the announcement on Twitter.

In her announcement to leave the Democratic Party, Gabbard accused the party of using rhetoric that is anti-police and anti-religion, and pushing the ...

She began building a national profile during the 2016 election, when she resigned from her post as vice chairperson of the Democratic National Committee to endorse Sen. In 2012, Gabbard became the first Hindu and one of the first two female combat veterans elected to Congress. Gabbard was first elected to her native state of Hawaii's legislature in 2002 as a Democrat, at the age of 21.

Kremlin apologists spreading disinformation during the ongoing conflict in Ukraine can be found on both sides of the aisle in US politics.

According to the [official webpage](https://goarmysof.com/CivilAffairs/CArecruiting.html) of the US Army Special Operations Recruiting Battalion, any Civil Affairs Officer must be eligible for (and maintain) a Top-Secret Security Clearance, one of the most demanding and stringent security clearances within the United States government. Gabbard has met the head of state of a sanctioned nation whose forces were actively engaged in combat with US-allied (and possibly US Special Operations) forces, called the Biden administration a dictatorship, and labelled the senior ranking member of a House Committee a domestic terrorist. It would be wise for the US Department of Defense, the US Army Psychological Operations and Civil Affairs Command, and the US Army Reserve to reconsider her status within the elite field of Civil Affairs officers, and reevaluate her top-secret security clearance. Meanwhile, Alexander Vindman, the former US Army Officer who testified against Trump during the Trump-Ukraine Scandal, [called her out](https://www.newsweek.com/vindman-calls-gabbard-agent-russian-disinformation-after-fox-segment-1733443) on social media for being a liar and “an agent of Russian disinformation [who promotes] Russian aggression and endanger[s] America”. When Gabbard announced she was running for President, she defended her actions in a [CNN interview](https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/20/politics/tulsi-gabbard-bashar-al-assad-meeting-cnntv); when asked if she had any regrets, she argued that it was important to meet with other leaders, “whether they be friends or adversaries or potential adversaries if we are serious about the pursuit of peace and securing our country”. [Bernie Sanders’s “Medicare for All”](https://www.axios.com/2019/03/23/2020-presidential-candidates-medicare-for-all) plan, calls for [campaign finance reform](https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/785983824672935938) and [the legalisation](https://www.businessinsider.com/marijuana-legalization-2020-presidential-candidates-2019-2#rep-tulsi-gabbard-of-hawaii-recently-introduced-a-bi-partisan-bill-in-the-house-with-gop-rep-don-young-to-de-criminalize-marijuana-at-the-federal-level-9) of marijuana at the federal level. She considers the pair a greater danger to the United States than the rioters who stormed the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021, while she has also warned of “efforts to combat domestic insurgents through surveillance and other monitoring activities”. Also contentiously, Gabbard [frequently appeared](https://www.politifact.com/article/2019/nov/21/looking-back-tulsi-gabbards-fox-news-presence-obam/) on Fox News as a sitting member of Congress, making more than 20 appearances between 2013 to 2017, and often opposing Obama’s foreign policy. For the most part, at least in the United States, this comes from far-right members of the Conservative ideology, including political commentators like [Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/these-are-the-american-right-wingers-covering-for-putin-as-russia-invades-ukraine-1311965/), but also political candidates like [JD Vance in Ohio and Joe Kent in Washington](https://accountability.gop/ukraine-quotes/) and Representatives [Madison Cawthorne](https://accountability.gop/ukraine-quotes/), [Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Paul Gosar](https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/putins-republican-sympathizers/). From [2013 to 2021](https://ballotpedia.org/Tulsi_Gabbard), Gabbard was the elected Representative for Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District. [first entered](https://ballotpedia.org/Tulsi_Gabbard) politics in 2002 at the age of 21, when she was elected to the 43rd District of the Hawaiian House of Representatives. [baseless](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/feb/25/vladimir-putin/putin-repeats-long-running-claim-genocide-ukraine/) [claims of genocide](https://theconversation.com/putins-claims-that-ukraine-is-committing-genocide-are-baseless-but-not-unprecedented-177511), and strongly support the Ukrainian people.

Tulsi Gabbard, a former congresswoman from Hawaii and 2020 presidential candidate, said she is no longer a member of the Democratic Party.

[presidential campaign](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-appeals-to-trump-voters-that-may-be-an-obstacle/), she tried to appeal to independents and Trump voters with a populist, anti-war message, but struggled to gain support from mainstream Democrats during the primaries. She did, however, stay politically active and spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual conference attended by Republican voters and politicians. "I believe in a government that is of, by, and for the people," she said. She eventually dropped the lawsuit. [she accused](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-says-kamala-harris-hatched-political-ploy-to-smear-joe-biden-on-race/) then-Sen. However, she is now a critic of President Biden and the party. She admitted the meeting was unusual but said partisanship will never "undermine our national security when the lives of countless people lay in the balance." She also tweeted a [similar sentiment](https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1148225733245972480). She went up against nine other Democrats who dropped out during the primaries and was the second to last to drop out, just before Sen. In a longer version of the video posted on YouTube, Gabbard said when she first declared herself a Democrat, she was inspired by those who stood up against the Vietnam War, people who fought for plantation workers in Hawaii and leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. will stand with Saudi Arabia, regardless of any intelligence community assessment on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's involvement in the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. In her video, she accused the party of dividing Americans, among other things.

Tulsi Gabbard's relative Dr Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard said that her niece was raised in a secretive cult named the Science of Identity Foundation (SIF), ...

The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). [Ukraine](/topic/ukraine)is not worthy of protection because of not being a democracy. [US House of Representatives](/topic/us-house-of-representatives). Tulsi Gabbard resigned from the Democratic Party because it has become a hub of elitists who want war. Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard further said her niece’s career is all about chasing power, as [Butler](/topic/butler)wants a strong political influence, according to reports. She also claimed of being earmarked by Big Techs for calling US President [Joe Biden](/news/joe-biden)an aggressor on social media.

Like in India, where party members, especially high-profile ones, rarely, if ever, leave one's party on ideological grounds, in the US, we now have Tulsi G.

3 mins read 7 mins read So, we feel for [Gabbard](/topic/gabbard)and understand her decision.

Few Democrats will shed a tear at her self-imposed exile. 2020 Presidential Candidates Speak At Urgent Gun Safety Forum. Rep.

And Biden press secretary Jen Psaki moved from the White House [into an on-air role at the same network](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/24/business/media/jen-psaki-msnbc-biden.html). In just a few years’ time, Gabbard has gone from [a prominent Trump critic](https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-donald-trump-unfit-serve-after-president-commends-her-voting-present-impeachment-1478855) to a [faithful backer](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/22/trump-respects-tulsi-gabbard-impeachment-vote/2726520001/). [Trump’s 2024 vice presidential pick](https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1580019123526172673), the far right already has more established rising stars, including [Arizona gubernatorial hopeful Kari Lake](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2022/10/kari-lake-arizona-governor-trump-2022-election/671679/) and [Rep. [cushy pundit chair at Fox News](https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/trey-gowdy-adds-new-job-title-fox-news-pundit/article_d0fdf61c-24c3-11e9-9c11-bbaaecfcf01d.html) in 2019. Centrist candidate Pete Buttigieg became a rising political star after [narrowly winning the Iowa Democratic caucus](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/04/us/elections/results-iowa-caucus.html). [anti-establishment isolationism, which often took the form of smearing her fellow Democrats as warmongers](https://www.politico.com/2020-election/candidates-views-on-the-issues/tulsi-gabbard/). Ryan parlayed his Beltway chops into a [role on Fox’s Board of Directors](https://www.foxcorporation.com/management/board-of-directors/paul-d-ryan/) after leaving politics. Gabbard wouldn’t be the first Washington player to try out a second career in the cable news industry. [drifting relentlessly rightward](https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/12/chad-blair-is-tulsi-gabbard-still-a-democrat/). On Wednesday, just a day after announcing her departure from the Democratic Party, Gabbard In her exit video she claims that Democrats are obsessed with “cowardly wokeness.” They promote “anti-white racism” (though they are led by a white president). Their party (led by a practicing Catholic) is “hostile to people of faith.” Gabbard insists, with vaulting hyperbole but no evidence, that Democrats are “dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.”

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