{"id":3352,"date":"2024-10-23T07:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T07:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/?p=3352"},"modified":"2024-10-24T01:00:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T01:00:48","slug":"tulsi-gabbard-joins-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/2024\/10\/23\/tulsi-gabbard-joins-republican-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Tulsi Gabbard joins Republican Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

The GOP has become a force for peace and common sense with Donald Trump at its helm, the former Democratic firebrand has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

Former US Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has endorsed Donald Trump in the race for the White House, announcing that she has joined the Republican Party.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gabbard, 43, served as a Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii and ran for the party\u2019s presidential nomination in 2020. Previously deployed to Iraq and Kuwait, she became a fierce critic of US military interventions abroad. Gabbard left the Democrats in 2022, accusing the party of being \u201cunder the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The firebrand made a surprise appearance at Trump\u2019s rally in the battleground state of North Carolina on Tuesday, where the Republican candidate introduced her as someone with \u201cso much common sense.\u201d<\/em> After taking the floor and embracing Trump, Gabbard lashed out at the Democratic Party, which she said has become \u201cunrecognizable\u201d<\/em> in recent years.<\/p>\n

The Democrats, whose election candidate is Vice President Kamala Harris, are now \u201canti-freedom, pro-censorship, pro-open borders, and pro-war,\u201d<\/em> Gabbard claimed, adding that Trump \u201cpledged to end wars, not start them.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Gabbard argued that Trump\u2019s leadership has helped \u201ctransform the Republican Party and bring it back to the party of the people and the party of peace.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m proud to stand here with you today, President Trump, and announce that I\u2019m joining the Republican Party. I am joining the party of the people\u2026 It is the party of common sense and the party that is led by a president who has the courage and strength to fight for peace.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The former Democrat has been a vocal critic of Harris\u2019 career as a prosecutor and her foreign policy, particularly on the Ukraine conflict. Gabbard blasted the Democratic nominee as the \u201cmain instigator\u201d<\/em> of hostilities, suggesting that she crossed Russia\u2019s red line by advocating for Kiev\u2019s eventual accession to NATO. \u00a0
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\u201cFor any objective-minded person, you can see why they wouldn\u2019t want NATO missiles sitting in Ukraine… Kamala Harris has put us, the American people, in this position, where we are closer to the brink of World War III and nuclear war than we ever have been before,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p>\n

Gabbard\u2019s position is in line with that of Trump, who has repeatedly called for a ceasefire while pledging to end hostilities between Moscow and Kiev within 24 hours if elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The GOP has become a force for peace and common sense with Donald Trump at its helm, the former Democratic firebrand has said Former US Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has endorsed Donald Trump in the race for the White House, announcing that she has joined the Republican Party.\u00a0 Gabbard, 43, served as a Democratic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3352"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3352\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bnchmrk.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}