Tulsi Gabbard reveals Trump campaign’s Kamala strategy: ‘Our challenge and our opportunity’

LAS VEGAS — Vice President Kamala Harris’ repeated attempts to deliver memorized answers show her contempt for voters, says former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, who famously trashed the vice president in a 2019 debate.

“Kamala Harris is the same person today who ran for president in 2020, in the sense that she is good at delivering well-rehearsed lines on a debate stage,” Gabbard told the Post.

“Most offensive,” she continued, “is that she thinks the American people are stupid enough to believe her rehearsed platitudes and ignore the reality of our lives and the problems that so many people face directly as a result of her and her time in office.”

Gabbard represented a Hawaii district in the House of Representatives for four legislative terms before running as a Democrat in 2020, leaving that campaign and ultimately the party.

Now she supports Donald Trump – The Post met her at a weekend event where she was promoting the former president’s bid for a second term.

Harris has many other weaknesses besides her inability to offer more than word salad when forced to deviate from the script. The ex-representative offered a gloomy assessment of Harris’ record.

“People can’t afford as much as they used to and are struggling to even make ends meet,” she told the Washington Post. “And because of the foreign policy decisions of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, we are on the imminent brink of World War III and nuclear Armageddon and are embroiled in multiple wars around the world.”

Her mission in “Sin City” — where alleged “sexting” target Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined her onstage at the “Restore America” ​​event hosted by race car driver Danica Patrick — was to “shed light on the truth and remind the American people of Kamala Harris’ record and also remind them of President Trump’s record and his success in every way, unlike Kamala Harris,” Gabbard said.

Gabbard was the first Samoan-American voting congresswoman and is widely believed to have taught Harris a lesson at the 2019 Democratic presidential debate in Detroit.

Gabbard was critical of Harris’ record as California attorney general, saying she had jailed more than 1,500 people for marijuana violations, suppressed evidence allegedly exonerating a death row inmate and held inmates in state prisons “to use them as cheap labor,” Politico reported. Harris had “scrambled her way through an answer.”

This exchange damaged Harris’ campaign, and she dropped out before the Iowa caucuses without securing a single delegate.

Gabbard said that while Harris may deliver rehearsed lines on stage – as she did in the debate with Trump on September 10 – there is not much behind the surface.

The vice president is absent without permission, Gabbard said, “when it comes to the issues that really matter to the American people. She takes responsibility for her role over the last three and a half years, almost four years of her tenure in the White House, for everything that has gone wrong in our country, so terribly wrong, from our open borders to historic inflation rates to drastically increased costs of living.”

Harris, Gabbard said, “doesn’t want the American people to know who she really is, and so she’s trying to use the propaganda media and big tech companies to present a version of herself that was created by her pollsters and that she believes will help her win this election.”

The Army Reserve officer, who this year published her book, “For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind,” said she has seen a shared frustration among voters during her travels to swing states like Nevada.

“There are a lot of people who are dissatisfied with politics as always, people who are frustrated because leaders in Washington have forgotten them,” Gabbard said. “Look at what happened in East Palestine, Ohio. Look at the destruction that happened in my home state of Hawaii, with the wildfires on Maui. Look at communities in Louisiana that are still dealing with the aftermath of the numerous hurricanes. There are so many people who feel left behind for many reasons.”

The Trump campaign is completely focused on these voters, she said. “Kamala Harris cannot, no matter how hard she tries, shirk her responsibility in this regard, and that is both our challenge and our opportunity in the coming days.”