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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Erum Salam

Tulsi Gabbard quits Democratic party, attacking ‘elitist cabal of warmongers’

Gabbard at the conservative CPAC summit in February this year.
Tulsi Gabbard at the conservative CPAC summit in February this year. Photograph: Octavio Jones/Reuters

The former congresswoman and 2020 presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard has announced her departure from the Democratic party, calling it an “elitist cabal of warmongers”.

In a video announcement posted to Twitter, she said: “I can 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.”

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