Notice how Tulsi reserves her harshest attacks for Kamala?

[RandySF]

Is it because Kamala is the lone black woman on the stage?

[Renew Deal]

1. Probably because Harris attacked her directly

[beachbumbob]

3. Totally agree, it's a typical school yard response on not that of

a seasoned professional.

[pnwmom]

8. No, Tulsi started it. She attacked Kamala in the very first debate. nt

[Renew Deal]

9. I didn't realize there was history

But in this one, Gabbard attacked the Democratic Party and Harris was asked to respond, which she did.

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. It's possible

[StarfishSaver]

4. Probably

The people she's appealing to eat that up.

[Perseus]

5. Kamala did right to attack her

Tulsi came out attacking Democrats in general. I have no idea how she got there, where are her supporters? Where is she getting the money to make it to the debates?

[StarfishSaver]

13. Kamala didn't attack her. She defended our party against Gabbard's attacks

[Tumbulu]

6. Is it something to do with Harris's

Mother being from India? Is there some cultural thing that perhaps people with more knowledge of the hierarchy could shed?

[RockRaven]

12. According to Wikipedia, although Gabbard is Hindu, she's not Indian. At all.

European-American and American Samoan. Adopted Hinduism as a teenager, by choice not by childhood familial acculturation. *According to Wikipedia* repeat caveat.

Could there be some cultural thing about Harris's mother involved still? I suppose so. Way outside my wheelhouse. But even if true, for me that would be a "hey you're an adult choosing to be an asshole" rather than "okay it is unfortunate that that's how you were raised" kind of thing.

[Texin]

7. How is she even THERE tonight?

[RockRaven]

10. Could also be b/c she's the only other mixed race woman on stage...

Not necessarily about being black, just about occupying the same "space" as "the mixed race woman candidate" but there's another unseemly/uncomfortable thing which it could be. Just spitballing, pure speculation: maybe it is not about being black, but about being Indian specifically.

Gabbard, who is of European-American-Samoan heritage, adopted Hinduism as a teenager, and hardly an biographical article about her gets written w/o mentioning that she's the only Hindu in Congress. Most people in America associate being Hindu with Indian heritage and vice versa (despite the margin to which that is incorrect in both directions). Harris's mother is Indian (Tamil, specifically, according to what I've read). So if Gabbard is at all insecure or feeling a poseur or doesn't like the contrast or whatever, maybe that is part of it.

[George II]

11. I actually think she's an equal opportunity attacker, even including some not on the stage.

[StarfishSaver]

15. Not really. She's obsessed with Hillary and Kamala

[EveHammond13]

14. it's disgusting

[herding cats]

16. Luckily, Kamala is leaps and bounds ahead of her!

Yes, I've thought as much in the past, but Kamala is a much more formidable opponent than Gabbard.

[Cha]

17. Notice how Kamala told some truths about TG?

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