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Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on 'This Week.' |
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-HI, a Hindu American running for the Democrat's 2020 presidential nomination, on Sunday (May 19) called a report that her campaign is being backed by prominent Russian sympathizers "fake news."
"And what I'm pointing out consistently, time and time again, is our continued wasteful regime change wars have been counterproductive to the interests of the American people.”
The Daily Beast, a left-leaning news organ, reported last week that Gabbard has received donations to her 2020 campaign from supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin, including a Russian studies professor and an employee of the Russian broadcaster RT.
The Daily Beast report was ridiculed by commentators on Twitter. Independent journalist Ben Norton called the Daily Beast’s article “embarrassingly bad,”while The Hill’s Krystal Ball blasted the Daily Beast's reporters for searching through 65,000 donors to find “3 with views that fit their pre-conceived narrative.”
In a crowded field of 24 Democratic candidates. Gabbard is polling around 1%. She ranks lower than Asian American nonpolitician, business entrepreneur Andrew Yang and far below Sen. Kamala Harris, the other two AAPI candidates. Former Vice President Joe Biden leads the field.
As the mainstream media continues to fixate on her supposed sympathies for the Kremlin, the Hawaiian has remained steadfast on her foreign policy proposals, emphasizing cooperation rather than conflict for the sake of regime change. On Thursday, Gabbard warned Donald Trump against “launching a very stupid and costly war with Iran,” and called out “war hawks in his administration” like National Security Advisor John Bolton, for leading the U.S. towards another conflict in the Middle East.
Since Gabbard, an Iraqui war veteran, declared her candidacy, the Hawaiian congressmember has been roundly criticized for her refusal to call Syrian President Bashar Assad an adversary of the United States — a position seemingly more aligned with Russia's stance than that of the United States.
"This is what I seek to change; to build relationships that are built on cooperation rather than conflict, deescalate these tensions, work out the differences that we have, the problems that we have with other countries and also recognize that in examples like denuclearizing the Korean peninsula. We’ve got to be able to work with countries like Russia and China to be able to accomplish that objective to keep the American people safe," she continued on This Week.
"What I am focused on is what is in the best interest of the American people, what is in the best interest of our national security, keeping the American people safe," Gabbard told Stephanopoulis.
The Daily Beast report was ridiculed by commentators on Twitter. Independent journalist Ben Norton called the Daily Beast’s article “embarrassingly bad,”while The Hill’s Krystal Ball blasted the Daily Beast's reporters for searching through 65,000 donors to find “3 with views that fit their pre-conceived narrative.”
In a crowded field of 24 Democratic candidates. Gabbard is polling around 1%. She ranks lower than Asian American nonpolitician, business entrepreneur Andrew Yang and far below Sen. Kamala Harris, the other two AAPI candidates. Former Vice President Joe Biden leads the field.
As the mainstream media continues to fixate on her supposed sympathies for the Kremlin, the Hawaiian has remained steadfast on her foreign policy proposals, emphasizing cooperation rather than conflict for the sake of regime change. On Thursday, Gabbard warned Donald Trump against “launching a very stupid and costly war with Iran,” and called out “war hawks in his administration” like National Security Advisor John Bolton, for leading the U.S. towards another conflict in the Middle East.
Since Gabbard, an Iraqui war veteran, declared her candidacy, the Hawaiian congressmember has been roundly criticized for her refusal to call Syrian President Bashar Assad an adversary of the United States — a position seemingly more aligned with Russia's stance than that of the United States.
"This is what I seek to change; to build relationships that are built on cooperation rather than conflict, deescalate these tensions, work out the differences that we have, the problems that we have with other countries and also recognize that in examples like denuclearizing the Korean peninsula. We’ve got to be able to work with countries like Russia and China to be able to accomplish that objective to keep the American people safe," she continued on This Week.
"What I am focused on is what is in the best interest of the American people, what is in the best interest of our national security, keeping the American people safe," Gabbard told Stephanopoulis.
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