Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) says former Vice President Dick Cheney’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris should have “made the choice” in November “very clear” to Democratic and independent voters: “A vote for Kamala Harris is a vote for Dick Cheney, the architect of everything that has gone wrong in the Middle East for the last few decades.”
Gabbard, a veteran of the Iraq War, condemned Harris’s response to the Cheney endorsement at a Colorado Springs event hosted by Tucker Carlson. “Her response to the Dick Cheney announcement… was that she was honored to have his endorsement, and we got military veterans in the house, got a lot of you who probably served in the Middle East like I did, and so it sickened me, Tucker, to read those words today from Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, and Kamala Harris because we have people who we care very much about who were killed in those wars because of Dick Cheney,” she said.
While Gabbard enlisted in the National Guard while already serving in the Hawaii State Legislature, deploying to Iraq and Kuwait, Cheney never served in uniform, securing five draft deferments during the Vietnam War.
Gabbard, a 2020 candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, endorsed former President Donald J. Trump at the National Guard Association of the United States General Conference in August. “I know that President Trump understands the grave responsibility that a President and Commander in Chief bears for every single one of our lives,” she said, expressing confidence that “his first task will be to do the work to walk us back from the brink of war.”
She and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., another former Democrat, now serve on Trump’s transition team.
Remember: A vote for Kamala is a vote for Dick Cheney, Hillary Clinton, and the woke warmongering cabal. A vote for Kamala is a vote for war, war, and more war — and with it, more infringement on our liberties in the name of “national security.” pic.twitter.com/Ejtg6LCCb6
— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) September 9, 2024