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Former Democratic-turned-Independent Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has responded to a stunning report that she is interested in running again for Congress.
Speculation has been mounting that Gabbard is preparing to challenge Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, and the former Democratic House member responded to a poll showing that she would face an uphill battle.
“Gabbard doesn’t know anything about the poll. She has no plans to run for the U.S. Senate,” said Gabbard’s spokeswoman Erika Tsuji, according to Resist the Mainstream.
Meanwhile, the Hirono campaign denied having any involvement in the poll. “She is running for reelection so Hawaii can continue to have a people’s senator who’s always on their side,” said Hirono’s spokesman George Flynn.
“The poll was reportedly sent out via SurveyMonkey to residents of the Aloha state, as reported by Hawaii News Now. As of this writing, the results of the survey have not been made public,” Resist the Mainstream added.
Gabbard left Congress to run unsuccessfully for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, earning just two delegates from American Samoa. In October, she formally abandoned the party and become an Independent, saying she has finally had enough of the “wokeness” and “warmongers” in the party, calling it an “elitist cabal.”
“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 hostile to people of faith & spirituality, demonize the police & protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans, believe in open borders, weaponize the national security state to go after political opponents, and above all, dragging us ever closer to nuclear war,” she said on Twitter while not elaborating on whether she would join another Party.
“I believe in a government that is of, by, and for the people. Unfortunately, today’s Democratic Party does not. Instead, it stands for a government of, by, and for the powerful elite,” the former representative said.
“I’m calling on my fellow common sense independent-minded Democrats to join me in leaving the Democratic Party. If you can no longer stomach the direction that so-called woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, I invite you to join me,” she said.
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— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) October 11, 2022
She has since launched a podcast of her own and interviewed now-former Fox News star Tucker Carlson during her debut episode.
“There are members of Congress who are controlled by the intelligence agencies. I’m not speculating about this, I know this. I lived there for 35 years. I know this,” Carlson said during a segment of the December show.
“I had a very high-ranking member of the House Intel Committee tell me at dinner at a restaurant in Washington, he’d been drinking. ‘We’ve got to talk about this.’ I said to text me. He said, ‘I don’t text.’ Why is that? Well, he said ‘the NSA reads my texts.’ I said, ‘The NSA reads your texts? You’re the head guy on the Intelligence Committee. You’re their boss? You’re providing oversight in our Constitutional system,’” he said. “Yeah, but they’re still spying on him.”
“The second thing: Michael McCaul, who is the leader of the neocons in the House, I got into an argument once with him last year on the phone. He told somebody that I was a Russian agent or something. And I was outraged! So I called him on the phone, and I used bad language. I was really mad. He said, ‘Whoa, whoa, whoa, I that was just what the intel briefers told me, that you’re working for Russia,’” the former host said.
“And I said, “That’s what the intel briefers told you? You believe your f***ng intel briefers? How old are you, son?’” he said.
