After the Democratic National Committee instituted a rule change that will effectively block Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) from the debate stage, the congresswoman and presidential candidate called on the two 2020 frontrunners to “stand up for what is right” and help her get into the next Democratic debate.
She never had any significant support and has no business being in a debate. This is all about creating chaos in the Democratic Party and helping Trump get re-elected.
Gabbard really has no business on the debate stage at this point but if the DNC rule change was ad hoc – not previously described in the nomination protocols – then she has a point but only that; not a case.
She disgusts me.
I won’t be surprised if Trump retweets Gabbard and offers his support of her request.
Putin will demand it.
Sorry for the OT, but this is wild:
Erik Prince and James O’Keefe, the dynamic duo of spiedom.
“Compel”. I do not think that word means what you think it does, even if you are a TPM headline mangler.
Tulsi has a lot of leverage with her 1 delegate from American Samoa.
Prince should be in jail for all the war crimes committed by his Blackwater minions
Don’t go away mad, Tulsi.
Just go away.
I ask that you stand w/ me against the DNC’s transparent effort to exclude me from the debates
And her one very influential patron from Moscow.
Biden should send over Symone Sanders to make Tulsi an offer she can’t refuse.
The cast of characters hasn’t changed much over the seasons, still all the usual suspects.
Didn’t she burn bridges with the Democratics a long time ago: Help-yea, right!
nope, she doesn’t have a say.
Bloomberg was added, because the progressive wing had a problem with him being in the shadows. Perez obliged, Bloomberg accepted and Warren terminated that challenge.
During that frame, Tulsi still didn’t qualify for either pre Super Tuesday debates.
If indeed an ad hoc change, they really need to stop those. It’s an unforced error (not a serious one but still)
This title though, rather click bait (or maybe bad English), as I think she’s just whinily asking Biden and Sanders, not ‘compelling’ them.
occamscoin is right: that headline needs fixing—maybe “demands” or “calls for” instead of “compels”.