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 congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced on Tuesday that she is leaving the Democratic Party.

He just gave a big speech saying supporters of President (Donald) Trump are the most extremist group in our country and a threat to our democracy. Clinton suggested that the person she was talking about was a “Russian asset,” while not naming the Hawaii Democrat. On the campaign trail, she “President Biden campaigned on a message of unity, healing the partisan divide bringing the country together. “I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party. [Tulsi Gabbard](https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/30/us/tulsi-gabbard-fast-facts/index.html) announced on Tuesday that she is leaving the Democratic Party.

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 Hawaii Rep. and presidential candidate is waving goodbye to the Democratic Party. It's Tuesday's news.

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Gabbard, who ran for president as a Democrat in 2020, announced Tuesday that she is leaving the party and urged others to do the same.

"Russia also said the Luger center in Georgia was making zombies. 8 search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate by federal authorities, saying that “whatever your views are on Donald Trump, there's no denying that the unprecedented raid on his Palm Beach home earlier this week has set our country on a dangerous new course, and there's no turning back.” Tulsi should go to Russia." [wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/malcolmkenyatta/status/1579822512644722694): “Wait, Tulsi Gabbard was a Democrat?” [wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/MayraFlores2022/status/1579822812508061696). While in Congress, she was a critic of then-President Barack Obama’s “I’m calling on my fellow common sense, independent-minded Democrats to leave as well,” Gabbard added. [wrote on Twitter](https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1503113473819041796) in March. [wrote](https://twitter.com/AdamKinzinger/status/1503180267653054466). [appearance on Fox News on Tuesday](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tulsi-gabbard-leaves-democratic-party-denounces-elitist-cabal?intcmp=tw_fnc), calling her “an independent maverick.” Prior to her unsuccessful presidential bid, Gabbard represented Hawaii in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2021, the first Hindu member of Congress, as well as Congress' first Samoan-American voting member. [one appearance in August](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA6XgCt0xSM), Gabbard referenced the Aug.

Former US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has labelled the Democratic Party an “elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness” in a video posted to ...

“I believe in a government that is of the people, by the people and for the people. Instead, it stands for a government that is of, by and for the powerful elite.” “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,” Ms Gabbard said in her YouTube video.

While seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in the last election cycle, Gabbard apologized for past anti-LGBTQ+ statements, but she's continued to ...

On her podcast, the did not say if she would join the Republican Party or become an independent, but she asked for “independent-minded Democrats” to leave the Democratic Party as well. ](https://www.advocate.com/politics/2019/1/17/tulsi-gabbard-apologizes-past-views-lgbtq-issues-were-wrong)“In my past, I said and believed things that were wrong, and worse, they were very hurtful to people in the LGBTQ community and to their loved ones,” she said. Gabbard, an Iraq War veteran and former Senate aide, dropped out of the presidential race early in 2020 and endorsed Biden for the nomination. In April of this year, she posted a video to social media saying Florida’s [“don’t say gay” law doesn’t go far enoug](https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/4/05/tulsi-gabbard-thinks-florida-dont-say-gay-law-doesnt-go-far-enough)h in censoring the discussion of sexuality and gender identity in public schools. Before that she was a state representative and a member of the Hawaii City Council. “I can no longer remain in today’s Democratic Party,” Gabbard said in a video posted Tuesday from the first episode of her new podcast, The Tulsi Gabbard Show.

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.

Former US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has declared the Ukraine conflict a “proxy war”, accusing the US of “using Ukraine as our military” to achieve its ...

“I believe in a government that is of the people, by the people and for the people. Instead, it stands for a government that is of, by and for the powerful elite.” That is what needs to happen here to prevent the destruction of the planet and life as we know it. Because of those cozy relationships with the military-industrial complex, these massive defence contractors and their lobbyists.” When politicians, even if we‘re not at war but we’re threatening that we may go to war, they make a lot of money. “When we are at war, the military-industrial complex makes a lot of money.

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.

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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.

Fresh off her decision to leave the Democratic Party, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is slated to campaign for controversial Trump-aligned New Hampshire Senate ...

“Tulsi Gabbard is a Vladimir Putin apologist who has pushed conspiracy theories and stood with dangerous tyrants over the United States. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) in the polls. “Tulsi is a fellow change agent and independent-minded outsider willing to speak truth to power.

The former Hawaiian Congresswoman says Fox treated her much more favorably than CNN and MSNBC.

Problem isn't going on Fox, the problem is going on Fox and kissing their ass. They’re into their power plays and all that, and that gets in the way.” And the knucklehead [@joerogan]replied Fox News is so nice to people like her. [Terms of use,](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/user-policies-a6184151.html) [Cookie policy](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/cookie-policy-a6184186.html) and [Privacy notice.](https://www.independent.co.uk/service/privacy-policy-a6184181.html) [Privacy policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en) and [Terms of service](https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en) apply. “They will talk over them, they’ll be rude to them. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google By clicking ‘Register’ you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, tweeted: “The problem isn’t going on Fox, the problem is going on Fox and kissing their ass.” [hosts referred to her as “our girlfriend Tulsi”](https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1509330152735584262), and pondered if she was a Russian agent. [an appearance in March](/news/world/americas/us-politics/russia-ukraine-war-romney-gabbard-b2034983.html) that Ukraine was not worth protecting because it “isn’t actually a democracy,” and claimed that US-funded “biolabs” could result in the release of “dangerous pathogens”. [Tulsi Gabbard](/topic/tulsi-gabbard) went on The [Joe Rogan](/topic/joe-rogan) Experience hours after announcing she was [ leaving the Democratic Party](/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsi-gabbard-leaves-democratic-party-b2200235.html) to say she had lost friends over her Fox News appearances.

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.”

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 11, 2022 / 15:00 pm (CNA). Former Hawaii congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced Tuesday that ...

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Former US congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has accused President Joe Biden and the "warmongers" in Congress of leading the United States to a "nuclear ...

Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard doubled down on her scorched-earth takedown of the Democratic Party on Wednesday, calling Vice President Kamala Harris a ...

“We had a person running for president who [she](/topics/tulsi-gabbard/) claimed to be very proud of [her](/topics/tulsi-gabbard/) record. Clinton said, without offering proof, that the Kremlin was “grooming” Ms. Harris dug into Ms. [SEE ALSO: Biden administration outsourcing online censorship of conservatives](/news/2022/oct/12/biden-administration-outsourcing-online-censorship/) During a 2019 debate, Ms. “To be associated with a party that is driven by this woke insanity, essentially opposing and undermining our freedoms, is not something that I could do any longer.”