Tulsi Gabbard Says Democrats “Will Stop at Nothing” to Keep Trump Off 2024 Ballot

This article originally appeared on The Epoch Times and was republished with permission.

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Former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, responding to efforts to keep former President Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot, said Democrats “will stop at nothing” to maintain power.

In a candid interview on Fox News’s “Hannity” on Thursday, the Democrat-turned-Independent former congresswoman raised an alarm over what she described as a concerted effort by Democrats to sideline President Trump from the 2024 ballot.

She described the decision by Maine’s top election official, a Democrat, to remove President Trump from the state’s ballot as a dangerous precedent and urged Republicans and Democrats alike to “stand up for our democratic process” and the right of voters to pick their president.

“This is the MO of the Democrat elite,” Ms. Gabbard said. “They will stop at nothing to try to maintain their power, even if it means taking away the right to vote of Americans.”

Furthermore, Ms. Gabbard charged that Democrats “have no issue taking Trump off the ballot,” including by “pursuing him and persecuting him through a weaponized and politicized Department of Justice.”

“They have no qualms about doing whatever they feel is necessary to hold on to power,” she added.

Democratic leaders have completely lost faith in democracy. https://t.co/MIcqGRXDoU

— Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 (@TulsiGabbard) December 20, 2023

The former Hawaii congresswoman pointed out the “ridiculous” hypocrisy in the eagerness of some Democrats, whom she referred to as “war hawks,” to intervene in foreign countries when political candidates face similar actions to those experienced by President Trump.

“We’ve seen how the war hawks in Washington, they will see this happen in another country, and they’ll be very quick to say we must go and intervene; we must go and topple this banana republic or this dictatorship,” said Ms. Gabbard.

Ms. Gabbard, who formerly represented Hawaii in Congress as a Democrat before retiring to run for president, publicly resigned from the Democrats in 2022, saying she could “no longer remain in today’s Democratic party that is under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoking anti-white racism.”

On Thursday, Ms. Gabbard suggested that “there are many Democrats like myself across the country who are disgusted with the direction the Democratic Party has taken but acknowledged that unlike her, ”they’re afraid to speak up“ for fear ”the Democrat leaders will smear, destroy, and try to cancel anyone who doesn’t go along with their narrative.”

Read the full story at The Epoch Times.