The Republican Occasion could have misplaced a morally bankrupt former Consultant in Liz Cheney, however they only gained a red-pilled Tulsi Gabbard in trade. The GOP even tossed in benchwarmer Adam Kinzinger within the trade.
And it’s nonetheless essentially the most lopsided commerce since Herschel Walker went to the Vikings in trade for 12 gamers and finally three Tremendous Bowls for the Dallas Cowboys.
Gabbard, a one-time Democrat candidate for President and former congresswoman from Hawaii, has been flirting with conservative ideology for a while now. Extra so, she’s considered her social gathering because the gender-confused conglomeration of woke Marxists they’ve turn into.
Now, she’s crossing over.
She made the transformation official in an announcement at a rally for former President Donald Trump in North Carolina Tuesday. And the group ate it up.
Tulsi Gabbard Proclaims She’s Switching To Republican Occasion
Trump supplied Tulsi Gabbard a couple of moments to talk at his rally the place she wowed the Republican and conservative crowd.
“To those of you here or those watching at home who are independent-minded people like myself, who love our country and are committed to the Constitution and to freedom, the Democratic Party has no home for people like us,” Gabbard mentioned.
“But we do have a home in the Republican Party where we are welcomed with open arms by President Trump.”
That’s when she delivered the shocker.
“I’m proud to stand here with you today, President Trump, and announce that I’m joining the Republican Party,” Gabbard added.
JUST IN: At Trump rally, former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard says she’s becoming a member of the Republican Occasion pic.twitter.com/hmHY6DTHU9
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) October 23, 2024
How Far She Has Come
For his half, President Trump indicated that Tulsi Gabbard’s announcement that she is becoming a member of the Republican Occasion got here as a shock.
“That was really … she’s been independent for a long time,” Trump mentioned. “It’s a great thing, a great honor.”
The face of the GOP indicated he “didn’t know” Gabbard was going to affix his social gathering.
“That was a surprise,” he mentioned.
It was simply two years in the past that Gabbard introduced she was leaving the Democrats. On the way in which out the door, she blasted her colleagues as being managed by “warmongers” who stoke anti-white racism and are possessed by “cowardly wokeness.”
Cheney and Kinzinger match proper in. Cheney, the warmonger. Adam, the coward.
I can now not stay in at this time’s Democratic Occasion that’s now below the entire management of an elitist cabal of warmongers pushed by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing each problem & stoke anti-white racism, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms, are… pic.twitter.com/oAuTnxZldf
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) October 11, 2022
In her announcement, Gabbard accused her former social gathering of demonizing legislation enforcement whereas “protect(ing) criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans,” and mentioned Democrats “believe in open borders” and are prepared to “weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents.”
She ain’t mistaken.
Some Republicans will view the transfer by Tulsi Gabbard with a suspicious eye. To make certain, she nonetheless holds some objectionable views on the Second Modification.
However her inclusion within the effort to avoid wasting our nation is a part of the ‘big tent’ technique that Democrats so desperately faux they make use of when, in actuality, it’s the Republican Occasion standing there with arms huge open.
One factor is for sure: we reside in fascinating instances.
