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David Smith in Oxon Hill, Maryland

‘Mentality of dictators’: Republican convert Tulsi Gabbard takes aim at former party at CPAC

a woman speaks from behind a lectern
Gabbard speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference annual meeting in Maryland on Thursday. Photograph: Michael Brochstein/Rex/Shutterstock

Once a prominent backer of the leftwing senator Bernie Sanders, on Thursday she was greeted by far-right activists with a standing ovation and a group of supporters brandishing gold letters that spelled T-R-U-M-P.

Such is the journey of Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman and presidential candidate who has an entire Wikipedia page devoted to her “political positions” and is now seen as a possible running mate for Donald Trump.

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