The Patriot Post® · Why Tulsi Gabbard's Trump Endorsement Matters

Man, what another blow for the Democrats. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was a tremendously important endorser of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, and now, with former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard also adding her name to the list, the Dems must be scrambling.

Gabbard, you’ll recall, ran for president as a Democrat in the 2020 campaign and was almost single-handedly responsible for ending Kamala Harris’s run for the Oval Office late in 2019. Gabbard obliterated then-Senator Harris on her record in a primary debate, saying:

She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana. She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California. And she fought to keep [a] cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.

Gabbard left the Democrat Party in 2022 after becoming totally disillusioned with her leftward-lurching Democrat colleagues. In a social media post at the time, she articulated, “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, actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms that are enshrined in our Constitution.”

This election cycle, Gabbard had already come out swinging against President Joe Biden. She is truly done with the class warfare that Democrats are inflicting on the American people.

Significantly, Gabbard chose to endorse Trump on August 26 because it was the third anniversary of one of the darker days in U.S. history — the day when a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport killed over 200 people, including 13 American military service members. It was all a consequence of Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, which Vice President Harris took credit for, claiming she was the last person in the room for that decision.

Gabbard is a lieutenant colonel with the United States Army Reserve. As a member of the Hawaii Army National Guard, she served two tours in the Middle East. So it was only appropriate that on Monday, she addressed the crowd at a National Guard conference in Detroit to endorse the former president.

“I am proud to stand here before you today,” she said. “Whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, or an independent, if you love our country as I do, if you cherish peace and freedom as we do, I invite you to join me in doing all we can to save our country and elect President Donald J. Trump and send him back to the White House to do the tough work of saving our country and serving the people.”

Gabbard has also been asked to help Trump prepare for his September 10 debate with Harris. The two camps have agreed to terms, though the likelihood of the debate actually happening remains suspect.

Democrats like to claim that they are the party of unity, but the only unity they have is groupthink. The GOP, through Trump, has been able to reach across party lines and find common ground. Sane people want a country where we can all live and work together in spite of our differences, not one where we set up intersectional coalitions and enforce a caste system.

(Updated with Gabbard’s current rank in the U.S. Army Reserve.)