Gabbard needs to go.

[onecaliberal]

This bullshit of allowing another Russian plant to attack real democratic candidates and the party needs to be stopped.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I don't think she won a lot of votes tonight.

At least not Democratic votes.

[Tumbulu]

3. So true- but why is she there!!!!?

[onecaliberal]

4. Republicans love her. She needs to be exposed and done away with.

She cannot be allowed this platform. I don’t get how people are so easily fooled.

[tishaLA]

13. Which early states have open primaries?

She'll do better in those, if she's still in the race, because repubs will come in and engage in their bullshit.

[Blue_true]

20. None. Michigan is the one that I remember, but it is late in the cycle.

If she is still in the race then, she can muck things up for the frontrunners. But she may hurt Bernie more than a true democratic frontrunner. I expect that democrats will back the true democratic frontrunner.

Bernie Sanders has a history of attacking the Democratic Party, he spoke fondly of Gabbard just this week. My guess is that he is ok with her behavior. I am afraid that he will pick her as his running mate if he gets the nomination. We need to be on guard for that. Sanders has a hardcore base that is pouring money into his campaign while the other candidates are splitting up money from solid-core democrats. I think once the field narrows, to one or two solid-core democrats they will outdistance Bernie on donation money, but until then it is going to be dicey.

[BigmanPigman]

23. No, she won "Democrat votes".

[kimbutgar]

2. I like how Pete got under her skin

[Tumbulu]

6. Me too!

Listen to her BS final remarks.

[cornball 24]

5. Agree 1000%! She has creeped me out from the beginning. Somethin' ain't right!

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. wow - her closing statement was pure la la land. no good judgement there.

she stands apart from all others on stage - definitely a creepiness.

[onecaliberal]

8. I muted her.

[TheBlackAdder]

11. It's an outreach to the 🌻Marianne Williamson🌻 voters.

[NRaleighLiberal]

12. WOO Hoo!

[yaesu]

9. Do you have proof that she is a Russian plant? nt

[onecaliberal]

10. How is she standing there? She has less than 1% support

So who is paying?

[yaesu]

15. Well, she met the rules, just like everyone else, now, back to the Russian plant allegation

I'm still confused how that even comes into the conversation? I don't think shes being investigated for it, haven't seen any WaPo reports about it, just curious how you came to that conclusion?

[onecaliberal]

16. I read and pay attention. It's not rocket science.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=353465

On edit: follow the fucking money. That’s how.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. The Russians like her a lot.

https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-being-used-russians-former-us-double-agent-evidence-clear-opinion-1466750

[yaesu]

17. opinion, sure, everyone has one, but where is the hard evidence? I could say spam was a Russian

plant because Russia really liked that a lot to. Where's the beef?

[Hekate]

18. How do we get rid of her? She is toxic.

[onecaliberal]

19. The media/ journalists need to start digging into her

Funding and support.

Republicans are using her attacks on Dems in this debate in ads already.

[Hekate]

21. I keep dragging out my files and links about Tulsi's background, because I hope ....

...they will prove to be of some use. One way this information can be used is for my fellow DUers to write to the media and journalists here in what we from Hawai'l call The Mainland.

A journalist in Hawai'i did some great work of digging into Tulsi's origins in a multi-part series of articles. It was hair-raising, her upbringing is thoroughly autocratic and authoritarian. That woman is no Democrat.

Then our fellow DUer Mahina did some great work by posting it here at DU. I did my small part by bookmarking the link. There have been a trickle of articles about Tulsi since then, posted by other DUers like Cha, and I keep bookmarking and dredging up the links when Tulsi apologists show up.

But what I do is small. We need DUers to take this information, distill it, and start sending it to media as appropriate. The reason I reference Hawai'i versus the Mainland is that the islands are remote and small and I think it's too easy to overlook Tulsi's origins once she has told her glamorized origin-story.

Too many take her at face-value: attractive, articulate, ambitious, military service, with a touch of the exotic. The Mainland is a big market, media-wise, and it really is up to people like us to insist that the media dig a lot deeper. Correct them when they are wrong. Insist that they get it right.

Speaking of "media"-- Joy Reid just this minute called her "odd" and her manner of speaking about Assad and other things "Kremliny." Looks like someone got the message.

[onecaliberal]

22. I will definitely be forwarding everything to media outlets and encouraging them to

Report how trump and republicans like and financially support her. She’s not a democrat.

[The Valley Below]

30. When people understand what the "Science of Identity" cult is all about...

all the mysteries about who Tulsi Gabbard is and what motivates her fall away.

Suddenly it ALL makes sense.

[totodeinhere]

24. Unfortunately there is no mechanism for getting rid of any declared candidate.

And as long as she meets the criteria set out for qualifying for debates then she is in.

[JoeOtterbein]

25. Fish in a Barrel.

We need to aim way much higher than Tulsi!

[mahina]

27. She's playing for the general to peel a few % off

the DemocratIC candidate.

[onecaliberal]

33. THIS is my worry.

[mahina]

26. Word.

[calimary]

28. She sure seemed loaded with cliches.

Lots of talk. Not much meaning.

[aeromanKC]

31. Gabbard is the Jill Stein of 2020

Time for her to go was yesterday.

[obamanut2012]

32. 100% agree -- I also think she will make a third-party run