Tulsi Gabbard announced Tuesday she is leaving the Democrat Party.
The former congresswoman and presidential candidate will campaign for a Republican Senate candidate: Retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc.
Retired Army Gen. Don Bolduc, who won the Republican primary and is campaigning against Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), confirmed in a statement Wednesday that Gabbard will be stumping for him. Tulsi Gabbard To Stump For GOP Candidate https://t.co/if7urOHBVF
— Michael (@helarctos) October 12, 2022
Tulsi Gabbard to stump for New Hampshire Republican Don Bolduc after ditching Dems https://t.co/2mAvcjItKJ pic.twitter.com/s7S7AMERbz
— New York Post (@nypost) October 12, 2022
“We don’t agree on every issue, but I am honored to have the support of Tulsi Gabbard who shares my view that the status quo is broken, and we need a change of direction,” Bolduc said in his statement.
“Tulsi is a fellow change agent and independent-minded outsider willing to speak truth to power.”
“I am going to spend every day between now and election day building a wide coalition of supporters that includes Republicans, independents, and even disaffected Democrats who know that Senator Hassan is a career politician and must be retired," he added.
.@TulsiGabbard is a fellow change agent and independent-minded outsider willing to speak truth to power. I'm honored to have her support and looking forward to barnstorming NH with her! #NHSEN pic.twitter.com/XRB14LaMhx
— Don Bolduc (@GenDonBolduc) October 12, 2022
Bolduc was endorsed by President Trump earlier this year.
The New York Post reported:
Bolduc defeated his moderate rival, state Sen. Chuck Morse, in last month’s Republican primary and has come under fire for echoing former President Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 election was marred by voter fraud.
Bolduc has also questioned whether the FBI should be abolished in the wake of the law enforcement agency’s August raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
During the primary campaign, a super PAC backed by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spent more than $3 million on ads endorsing Bolduc, according to the Washington Post, in an apparent attempt to elevate a more vulnerable candidate against Hassan.
Hassan, a former New Hampshire governor who is seeking a second six-year term, leads Bolduc by 5.8 percentage points, according to a Real Clear Politics average of polls.
Gabbard, 41, blasted the Democratic Party Tuesday as “an elitist cabal” driven by “cowardly wokeness” and stoking “anti-white racism” in a searing video posted on Twitter.
Zero Hedge added:
Gabbard drew headlines on Tuesday when she announced she was leaving the Democratic Party. The former Hawaii congresswoman was a candidate for the Democrats in the 2020 presidential election after having served multiple terms in the House of Representatives.
“If you can no longer stomach the direction that the so-called woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, then I invite you to join me,” she in a video posted on Twitter. Democrats, Gabbard added, “divide us by racializing every issue & stoking anti-white racism, who actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms enshrined in our Constitution.”
Although Gabbard ultimately endorsed Joe Biden for president in 2020, she’s later been critical of his administration. The former lawmaker continued to target Biden in Tuesday’s video message.
“President [Joe] Biden campaigned on a message of unity, healing the partisan divide bringing the country together. He just gave a big speech saying supporters of President Trump are the most extremist group in our country and a threat to our democracy. That’s half the country,” Gabbard remarked.
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