Former congresswoman and onetime 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is scheduled to speak this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference — a major gathering for Republicans.
Matt Schlapp, chairman of the group that organizes the event, announced Gabbard’s participation on Twitter Monday.
Gabbard, who represented Hawaii in the U.S. House, has frequently been critical of prominent Democrats — including President Joe Biden on the issue of Ukraine.
“Biden can prevent war, but I fear he lacks the courage to do so,” she wrote in a Tweet Monday.
“What are we trying to achieve in Ukraine? How will it benefit the American people? And at what cost? The Biden [administration] has never answered these questions.”
Gabbard’s photo was among those listed on CPAC’s website on Monday, along with a number of conservatives including former President Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Trump also attended last year’s event.
Gabbard was one of a number of Democrats who ran for president in 2020, but her campaign never gained much traction with voters. She dropped out in March 2020 having won only two pledged delegates.
Gabbard is scheduled to address the conference’s Ronald Reagan Dinner on Saturday, according to The Hill.
The conference begins on Thursday in Orlando, Fla., and will run until Sunday.
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“What are we trying to achieve in Ukraine? How will it benefit the American people? And at what cost? ,,,,,Answer, We Democrats will use the Ukraine to Wag the Dog to draw attention from the Real Hillary, Obama, Biden Russian collusion to trade American power and influence for Personal power and gain. It will benefit only the people who perpetrate the diversion but cost the American Economy dearly, raise the cost of energy even more than the Trillions more we now, thanks to Joe ,pay the Russians, while Putin and Joe Biden laugh all the way to the banks who will soon seize all YOUR accounts if you utter one word of complaint, while they get to play fast and furious as usual with no concept of accountability.
AND the media will KISS their butts, for doing it.
She’s just a DINO. Demonrat in name only.. S he is as bad as every RINO out there.
She got up and crossed the isle—that’s better than reaching across. Wish more Dems would do that.
BUT can we ever trust her though?
I would trust her before the phony, do nothing republicans who constantly roll over and let the liberals destroy our country.
Glad to see she has a brain in her head. But if she became a republican, she’d be a RINO. But then she was kicked out of the dummycrat party because she exposed the ex porno star for the piece of raw sewage she is.
I wonder, if she, and manchen both jumped to the RNC, how frothing at the mouths, the dems would be!
Despite Tulsi having talking points I disagree with, from the first time hearing her in the debates, I was impressed by her gravitas.
She seemed the most level headed out of the group of hopefuls, and that is why the Dim Dems sidelined her. She had a mind of her own, and maybe because she had military experience, she could have helped avoid the problems we’re now facing because of a man who spent his entire adult life living off taxpayer money, and showing nothing in return but his contempt for the taxpayer.
If a Dem had to be voted in, I wish it had been her.
And in the time since she stepped down from the race, she continues to be a voice of integrity who seems authentically concerned about the citizens, We the People, of this Country.
Her being a speaker at a Rep/Conservative conference speaks volumes about her and the hopes for the Country.
But I’d still wish we still had Trump.