Tulsi Gabbard, encouraged by Trump, may seek spoiler role

[TomCADem]

Bernie's protege Tulsi Gabbard is once again finding that the more she attacks Democrats the more attention she gets.

https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-encouraged-by-trump-may-seek-spoiler-role-175507843.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALMXgkkhapnq59wuXBYoEvPuVdU9QYsO_tYtvXJGW9IvHKm6C2gExqetkt1BmGabZW-ZtrLzXuJwerqQ-OZAdH7WjTtySpxbv2mi01elJfAsUMGmNldQW1gcgmGwFeLSpe5YXRgx2oxGhPP9JAKxdFs8XU3IRYnJ-Y52CfLIaVZc

It is not exactly breaking news that Tulsi Gabbard will not win the Democratic presidential nomination. Since announcing her candidacy in January, the U.S. House member from Hawaii has never polled higher than 2 percent in the RealClearPolitics polling average.

That may not stop Gabbard from mounting a third-party White House bid and having a major impact on the 2020 election, and one person who is welcoming that prospect is President Trump.

“I give her respect,” Trump said of Gabbard during a Florida speech over the weekend at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit. “She didn’t vote the other day. I give her a lot of respect because she knew it was wrong. She took a pass.”

Gabbard explained that her vote of “present” on the two articles of impeachment against Trump was meant to break the “zero-sum game” of political gridlock in Washington.

[evertonfc]

1. Impossible

It would be virtually impossible for her to run as an Independent. She has a miniscule base of white men and would never be able to raise the cash needed .

[hedda_foil]

9. Republicans and big donors will fund her like they have done with Green candidates in the past.

This time it may backfire on them because Republicans like her and Dems decidedly don't.

[UCmeNdc]

12. The GOP will fund her as a spoiler candidate.

She will do it.

[duforsure]

15. Putin will funnel money into her campaign like he's doing for the republicans in Congress

And buy ads on social media for her promotion as a third party candidate.

[evertonfc]

19. What makes you

think she will hurt our candidate?

[dem4decades]

2. Hillary called it.

[StarfishSaver]

5. And, as usual, got pilloried for it - but, also as usual, she was abolutely right

She keeps trying to warn us and people keep telling her to shut up. Pretty amazing.

[Don1]

25. Was Hillary right?

[StarfishSaver]

36. Yes, she was

Hillary was indeed correct when she said the Russians had their eye on a particular candidate, most likely Tulsi Gabbard "and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate. She’s the favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her, so far."

Why do you ask?

[LanternWaste]

37. Deflect to the Russians... it will sound more credible on your part.

[betsuni]

7. And there was lots of "All Hillary did was give her the attention she was looking for."

Forewarned is forearmed.

[Cha]

8. Yeah, some were quick to start blaming

Hillary for not naming names but Gabbard raising her hand and going Berserk

[betsuni]

10. Hillary gets the blame while Tulsi calls her "queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption and

personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party" as if such an unhinged tweet wasn't giving Tulsi all the attention she was looking for.

[Cha]

11. "Unhinged" is putting it mildly.. m$m should

have been all over that Hillary Derangement as in "Gabbard's not fit to serve".. going on tucker's fox show.. & Hannity.. followed up by Huckabee's.. oh Really?

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Uh huh.. "..queen of warmongers.."? I'm calling BS.. I call Gabbard "queen of warmongers".

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[thesquanderer]

16. The article references no sources, not even anonymous ones.

Unless I missed something, I don't see anything that justifies the article's headline, except the writer's opinion, unless you count his reference to Hillary's comment... in which case this is not evidence of Hillary being proven right, but just someone else again saying that Hillary has said this.

[dweller]

3. Magat magnet

yeh go for it

✌🏼

[Harker]

4. Her four votes

won't spoil anything but her taste for elected office.

[Kurt V.]

6. Bernie's protege

[kozar]

28. if she is a Bernie protege'

why would she publicly endorse Biden?

[Capt. America]

13. A lot of states have different dates to file for a presidential ballot. She likely would not meet

all of the requirements in time.

[B Stieg]

14. She's polling at 1.7% (RCP Average 12/4-12/17)

Who cares what she does?!

[Don1]

20. Spoiler? NT

[LanternWaste]

21. In the political context it means...

"one (such as a political candidate) having little or no chance of winning but capable of depriving a rival of success..."

(Merriam-Webster)

Hope that assists you in your confusion!

[Don1]

22. I don't have confusion.

She was neither a spoiler, nor did she become an INDEPENDENT third-party candidate.

This was a false narrative.

[LanternWaste]

23. I merely responded to your confusion in regards to the word.

That's what it means.

Nothing more. Nothing less.



(beyond that, you should peddle your 'false narrative' tale to someone who cares... and that ain't me, chippy)

[Don1]

24. I am not confused about a word.

She was not a spoiler, a Russian agent/asset/useful idiot, and nor was she trying to become an independent.

That was a false narrative.

Those are conspiracy theories coming from somewhere.

Do you agree or disagree?

[RandySF]

26. That's from December

She just endorsed Joe.

[kozar]

27. This is the big point

Jill Stein never endorsed Hillary,,, Tulsi did,,,in my mind once she endorsed JB publicly,, we can all lay down our beliefs, and just know this is different than Jill Stein or anything else.

Koz

[True Blue American]

30. Tulsi endorsed Biden.

He sent her a very nice thank you praising her service to the Country!

[kozar]

33. I guess this is why we love Joe

yes he has some faults and mixes words right now,,, but my 60 year old brain knows ,, We just need Joe in charge of this country. And for the record,,just so I can say this,,, I supported through my posts here, a Biden /Harris ticket even before Joe decided to jump in, our country needs Joe right now, if for no other reason that there is no learning curve involved. He can step in and start fixing instead of taking a couple weeks to find out "what offices are where" And after 4 years,, he has made Harris with knowledge for 2024



Koz

[lark]

29. Umm, this appears to be old. She endorsed Biden!

[obnoxiousdrunk]

34. Yes .

It's click bait...

[Blue Owl]

35. Yup -- too late!

[True Blue American]

31. She endorsed Biden!

[sop]

32. Tulsi Gabbard is an actual Democrat in Congress, unlike Jill Stein. Tulsi announce she would not

seek re-election last September, to devote herself to her presidential campaign. Maybe now, after suspending her campaign and endorsing Biden, she'll seek another term. Marco Rubio did the same thing in 2016. If she has any future political ambitions, Gabbard would be foolish to play the role of spoiler.