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Former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard endorsed Republican Occasion candidate Donald Trump within the 2024 presidential race. Whereas showing at Trump’s Nationwide Guard convention in Detroit on Monday, August 26, Gabbard, 43, emphasised her help for him.
“This administration has us going through a number of wars on a number of fronts in areas world wide, and nearer to the brink of nuclear warfare than we ever have been earlier than,” she claimed, in line with a number of retailers. “This is without doubt one of the major the explanation why I’m dedicated to doing all that I can to ship President Trump again to the White Home, the place he can as soon as once more serve us as our commander in chief.”
Gabbard added that everybody in the US “should stand collectively to reject this anti-freedom tradition of political retaliation and abuse of energy.”
I used to be a Democrat for over 20 years. At present, I endorsed Donald Trump for President. WATCH to listen to why: pic.twitter.com/lwA8FYFx8h
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) August 26, 2024
“We will’t enable our nation to be destroyed by politicians who will put their very own energy forward of the pursuits of the American folks, our freedom, and our future,” the previous U.S. consultant added. “I’m proud to face right here earlier than you in the present day, whether or not you’re a Democrat, a Republican or an unbiased. In case you love our nation, as I do, in the event you cherish peace and freedom as we do, I invite you to affix me in doing all that we are able to to avoid wasting our nation and elect President Donald J. Trump and ship him again to the White Home to do the powerful work of saving our nation and serving the folks.”
Elsewhere in her deal with, the U.S. Military Reserve Officer claimed that Trump, 78, “understands the grave duty {that a} president and commander in chief bears for each single one in every of our lives.”
“We noticed this by way of his first time period within the presidency, when he not solely didn’t begin any new wars, he took motion to de-escalate and forestall wars,” she mentioned. “He exercised the braveness that we anticipate from our commander in chief in exhausting all measures of diplomacy, having the braveness to fulfill with adversaries, dictators, allies and companions alike within the pursuit of peace, seeing warfare as a final resort.”
Beforehand, Gabbard served as a U.S. consultant for Hawaii’s second congressional district from 2013 to 2021. In 2020, she was a candidate for the Democratic Occasion’s presidential nomination. That 12 months, she endorsed President Joe Biden, who went on to win the election. Two years later, Gabbard left the Democratic Occasion to change into an unbiased.
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