Lauren C. Moye, FISM News
A day after announcing her breakup with the Democratic Party, former congresswoman and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has endorsed Republican candidates for the U.S. House and Senate.
“President Biden, Pelosi, and Perez’s policies of open borders have led to a crime and drug epidemic that is killing people and making us less safe,” Gabbard stated in an endorsement video for Washington Representative candidate Joe Kent released on Oct. 12. It follows her trend this week of openly attacking key Democrats and liberal ideologies.
Meanwhile, Gabbard declared that the contender “is a fighter. He has dedicated his life to ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people and our country.”
“I’m honored to be endorsed by Tulsi Gabbard,” said Kent, adding that family and nation-first policies are “about our common love for our nation, not political labels.”
I’m honored to be endorsed by @TulsiGabbard! Tulsi is leading the political realignment to put our families & our nation 1st. This movement is about our common love for our nation, not political labels. Join us & lets take our nation back! pic.twitter.com/Hq4j7TuqqN
— Joe Kent for WA-3 (@joekent16jan19) October 12, 2022
Kent is running against Democrat Marie Glusenkamp Perez for Washington’s third congressional district. The race is close according to a poll conducted by the Norwest Progressive Institute and Public Policy Polling. That poll showed Kent leading by 3-points, 47% to 43%.
The seat has been in Republican control since January 3, 2011. It was held exclusively during that time by Rep. Jaime Beutler. Beutler, who infuriated constituents after voting to impeach former President Donald Trump, lost her renomination bid to Kent.
Accordingly, Kent has also been endorsed by Trump.
The Republican hopeful has raised concerns among various voter blocs for his full abortion ban stance, calls to end Ukraine support, and American oil expansion.
He has also been accused of being a white nationalist, which Kent declared is “nonsense.” Rather, he says he’s been heckled by white supremacists who “actively worked against” him.
Meanwhile, Bolduc announced on Wednesday that Gabbard would be joining him on the campaign trail for his New Hampshire Senator bid.
“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,” the former Army brigadier-general said.
The endorsements came one day after Gabbard’s blistering break-up announcement with the Democratic Party. At the time, Gabbard called on fellow “independent-minded Democrats” to also leave the party if they “can no longer stomach the direction that the so-called woke Democratic Party idealogues are taking our country.”
In her lengthy repudiation of the party on Oct. 11, she accused her former political party of being under the “elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven by cowardly wokeness” and of “dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.”
This stern stance against nuclear weapons and war is one that Kent shares.
“I truly wish there was still an anti-war wing of the Democratic Party. Americans deserve a bipartisan effort to avoid nuclear war as opposed to reckless escalation,” Kent said on Thursday.
It’s a stance that also unites a second proud “pro-Trump Republican” with the former Democratic Representative of Hawaii.
Former Air Force officer and current Senator Wendy Rogers (R-Ariz.) reshared the Twitter announcement. She said, “Tulsi Gabbard is Army. Joe Kent is Army. Those of us who’ve served overseas understand more than anyone else, that armchair warmongering politicians want war, but we don’t.”
Rogers endorsed Kent in a previous election cycle.
Bolduc has also criticized U.S. aid sent to Ukraine. However, his concerns are related to inflation rather than the potential for nuclear warfare. He said, “We can’t print this money. It’s money we don’t have, and it’s equipment that’s being thrown at a problem without any strategy.”
The anti-war sentiment is only one commonality between the three political figures.
Gabbard said on Tuesday that the Democratic party had become divisive among different ethnic groups in the U.S while racializing everything and “stoking anti-white” sentiments.
Meanwhile, Kent describes his message as one of “inclusive populism and nationalism,” as part of his America First agenda that doesn’t prioritize any race over the other. He said his message is a threat to “white supremacist and woke leftists alike.”
In a particularly blistering opinion piece, Bolduc said that a bill banning Critical Race Theory should be supported because he’s held “children dying because of the hatred driven by the ideas embodied in” similar ideologies.
In all, Gabbard’s support of these Republican candidates should serve as a warning to Democrat politicians pushing liberal policies.