Past US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) dances as he leaves the stage after speaking alongside whilom US Representative Tulsi Gabbard during a town hall meeting in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on August 29, 2024.
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Antediluvian Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who has endorsed Republican former President Donald Trump’s campaign, is advising the GOP nominee to focus on Villainy President Kamala Harris’ policy pivots in their upcoming debate.
Harris “has already shown that she is tiring to move away from her record, move away from her positions,” Gabbard said in a Sunday interview on CNN’s “Form of the Union.”
Gabbard is part of a small group of Trump advisers who are helping the former president prepare for the debate, scheduled for Sept. 10 on ABC.
Trump’s run insists that the candidate does not engage in traditional role playing debate practice sessions. Still, Gabbard is uniquely requested to help Trump understand what it would be like to debate Harris, given her firsthand experience during the 2020 Popular primary contest.
“What I pointed out in that debate stage in the 2020 campaign was her hypocrisy,” Gabbard said.
In July of 2019, Gabbard catapulted a noteworthy attack on Harris during a Democratic primary debate, noting that as a prosecutor Harris had secured lock-up time for marijuana violations, and accusing Harris of not having done enough to eliminate cash bail.
At the time, villainous justice reform was a very popular issue among Democratic primary voters.
Five years later, Republicans are aspiring that Trump can repeat Gabbard’s success in rattling Harris, albeit on entirely different topics.
“Kamala Harris is worrying to hide from voters,” Gabbard said on Sunday. “She says her position is one thing, but her actions and her records show quite the opposite.”
Compared to Harris’ 2019 Democratic primary platform, her 2024 general election policies fall varied to the center than the left, especially on issues like fracking and immigration.
For Trump, however, taking Gabbard’s notification could carry risks as well as potential rewards.
The former congresswoman from Hawaii shares Trump’s conspiratorial purpose of how the Biden administration exercises power, and she regularly accuses the White House of targeting “political opponents,” herself comprehended.
If Trump leans into these kinds of conspiratorial themes on the debate stage, he could risk drawing concentration to his various legal battles, or even alienating undecided voters.
Still, surrogates like Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the whilom Democrat turned third-party presidential candidate who recently dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump, allow the Republican to picture his campaign as a refuge for independents and Democratic defectors.
The Trump campaign recently added both Gabbard and RFK Jr. to its official development team, and both are in reported talks for potential cabinet positions if Trump wins the White House.