Support for President Donald Trump was received on Monday from Tulsi Gabbard, who was once aligned with the Democratic Party and was a former Congresswoman, an ardent U.S. presidential hopeful and professing Hindu American. This achievement once more adds to the list of defeats for the moderate Republican section who continue to lose support as more wings of the MAGA Republican candidate even the aging ones.
Anchored in a Republican worldview, Gabbard who has been soliciting to oppose or back President Trump remains a congresswoman from the bluest part of America, Hawaii. She took a red pill, moved to the other side and became a fierce critic of her party, Trump included, because she felt it was using political institutions in this case against her and Trump. She also is quite within the rightist ecosystem of India, with an intimation who is an RSS top leader attending her wedding in Hawaii in 2015 with many others.
The difference lies in the fact that he has been courting the sympathies of MAGA Republicans even when there has been warmth with respect to foreign policy and a worry amongst her previous colleagues who view her as pro – Russian owing to her relatively dulcet stance toward the reality and image of Putin much like Trump rather. She has successfully locked heads with Hillary and Kamala and called them out on being “marionettes of the military industrial complex and national security state” and other intolerable perpetrators.
Also because of her outlier views, she was placed, it has been reported, on a domestic terrorism watchlist program, Quiet Skies, in which the movements of airline passengers are monitored, a move that seems to have angered her. On Monday, she argued with Kamala, the same Kamala Harris who had some words against her in a presidential debate on August 12, 2019 and accused her of infringing civil liberties, adding, “We as Americans must stand together to reject this political retaliation and abuse of power.”
Gabbard’s admission into the Trump fold on the heals of independent candidate Robert Kennedy jr endorsing Trump last week lessens this perception at least to some extent, especially about the moderate Republican hemorrhage one is looking at emanating from the ranks of Makgaga. About six republicans have endorsed, spoke and voiced Kamala Harris in the democratic convention which was held a week back.
Kamala Harris was endorsed for the presidency by a dozen Republican White House lawyers who served in the administrations of former Presidents Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, and George W Bush. Similarly, more than 200 Republican employees of George Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney’s presidential campaigns have also endorsed Harris.
Both camps were still at loggerheads over the rules regarding the debate which has been scheduled for September 10th. The Trump camp is now turning the tables on Harris and accusing her of running away from the engagement by rule changing like, both candidates having their mics on 24/7, seating and wave forming etc.
Harris is under scrutiny — from some members of her Democratic party even — for her refusal to face any hostile press as well as any personal questioning in one-on-ones.
