Former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard has officially endorsed Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid, further distancing herself from her former party.
Tulsi Gabbard said on Monday, “The administration has us facing multiple wars on multiple fronts in regions around the world and [closer] to the brink of nuclear war than we ever have been before.”
“This is one of the main reasons I’m committed to doing all I can to send President Trump back to the White House where he can once again serve us as our commander-in-chief,” she said. “Because I am confident that his first task will be to do the work to walk us back from the brink of war.”
Gabbard appeared with Trump at the National Guard Association in Detroit, Michigan for the third anniversary of the suicide bombing that took place at Kabul Airport on August 26, 2021.
During the conference, Gabbard praised Trump for “having the courage to meet with adversaries, dictators, allies, and partners alike in the pursuit of peace, seeing war as a last resort.”
Donald Trump portrayed the election between himself and Kamala Harris as a “fight between communism and freedom,” saying that it is no longer a choice between Republicans and Democrats.
President Trump’s team later announced that Tulsi Gabbard would be moderating a town hall in Wisconsin on Thursday.
On the suicide bombing at Kabul Airport, Tulsi Gabbard said, “My prayers are with their families and loved ones. My heart breaks for their pain and loss.”
Tulsi Gabbard’s history
Tulsi Gabbard served in the military in Iraq before running for the 2020 Democratic nomination in the lead up to that year’s elections. She left the Democratic Party two years ago after finding herself at odds with its standards and members during her time as a member of the House of Representatives for Hawaii.
Gabbard once endorsed 2016 Democratic nominee Bernie Sanders during that year’s primaries. While that once made her popular among the party’s more progressive members, her ideology has shifted over the past few years. After falling out of the 2020 presidential election, she also endorsed Biden but became independent two years later.
Since leaving her former party, Tulsi Gabbard has said the Democrats are controlled by “an elite cabal of warmongers driven by woke ideology and radicalizing everything. They are a clear and present danger to the God-given freedoms enshrined in the Constitution.”
In 2019, she was the only one to vote “present” when the House of Representatives was impeaching Trump, showing that Gabbard has supported Trump for some time now. In the years since she left the Democratic Party, she has supported many Republicans in office and has started a podcast.
Tulsi Gabbard’s Trump endorsement comes after Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s endorsement of Donald Trump last Saturday. Kennedy was running as an Independent but pulled out of the 2024 presidential race.
