"VP Harris’s is the party of lawfare, disenfranchisement, and the coronation of its candidates by corporate donors and party elites.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Texas Insider Report) — After one of the Democrat Party's most prominent and historical family members, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., broke with party ranks Friday by endorsing Republican Donald Trump over Kamala Harris for president, the expanding floodgates of former Democrat Party Leaders endorsing Mr. Trump continued to swing open earlier today as former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard – a 2020 Democrat Presidential Candidate known for dressing down Ms. Harris during a heated 2020 debate exchange, and who is also known for having served in the U.S. military and being deployed to the battlefields of Iraq & Kuwait prior to being elected to Congress – endorsed Mr. Trump Monday morning during a widely-followed 146th General Conference & Exhibition of the National Guard Association of the United States in the battleground state of Michigan.
Gabbard, who left the party two years after the 2020 Democrat Presidential Primary because of what she criticized as an elitist leadership and D.C. orchestrated power structure – which she said had attacked her for speaking openly about the dominance the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama operations – this morning praised Donald Trump for the foreign policy expertise he exhibited as president, saying:
"I know that President Trump understands the grave responsibility that a president bears for every single one of our lives – whether you're a soldier, you're an airman, a marine sailor or a Coastie, he keeps us in his heart, in the decisions that he makes," Gabbard said.
"I'm committed to doing all that I can to send President Trump back to the White House, where he once again serve us as our Commander in Chief," said the retired Hawaii Congresswoman and former Democrat presidential candidate who served in Iraq and Kuwait.
During here announcement, Gabbard alluded to her belief that the Republican Party is very quickly becoming a more inclusive, big tent party – which Kennedy had also described following his Friday endorsement – as Donald Trump's and his campaign have become willing to work with anybody who wants to "make America great again."
Both former Democrats praised Mr. Trump for his willingness to meet with nontraditional groups or individuals, and for what they said had seen was a sincere desire by the former president to at least visit with those concerned about the direction of the nation during the four years of the Biden-Harris administration.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. acknowledged Friday it was that very willingness by Trump to reach out to people who didn’t agree with him all the time – and signal it is OK to debate and dissent while trying to find public policy solutions – that hastened his switch to the GOP nominee.
The Kennedy scion said that Trump’s invitation gave him hope to “allow us to disagree publicly and privately and seriously,” and still work to better America.
Mr. Kennedy has for months argued that he didn’t leave the Democrat Party, but rather that “it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with” that it left him and other traditional Democrats like him.
“It has become the party of war, censorship, corruption, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Ag and big money,” he declared.
Recent comments by both Gabbard and RFK, Jr., make clear it has not been lost on either individual – or, they noted, significant portions of the American Electorate – that Ms. Harris was not elected to her position atop the Democrat ticket, but rather was appointed by the party's elite power-brokers who claim devotion to "Saving Democracy.".
Critics have, and will continue to note, that Harris did not receive a single primary vote, and the party never had any form of open debate as part of the process to despose of the existing nominee, President Joe Biden.
And perhaps contributing to the current unrest within the party, after Biden’s disastrous debate performance against Mr. Trump, Harris continued to further "the big lie" that defended Mr. Biden’s mental acuity and physical energy.
“I attended my first Democratic Convention at the age of six in 1960,” Kennedy fondly recalled Friday, referring back to the era when his uncle John and father Robert Sr. ruled the Democrat establishment.
“Back then, Democrats were the champions of the constitution, and of civil rights. Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism and unjust wars – we were the party of labor, of the working class,” Kennedy said on Friday.
“The Democrats were the party of government transparency... Our party was the bulwark against big money interests and corporate power.
"True to its name, it was the party of democracy,” Kennedy said during a nationally televised press conference Friday, where he announced he was suspending his independent presidential campaign and backing Trump.
With such a visible and formal divorce having taken place in public from the party his family once ruled as kingmakers, Democrat strategists are worried RFK, Gabbard, and even Elon Musk to some degree have opened the door for other possible Democrats to follow suit in embracing Donald Trump in 2024 – potentially even creating a message of a “unity party” where Americans can disagree and debate without destroying each other.
“I think the Trump people should package Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F Kennedy Jr, together, and they would – as joint former Democrat witnesses about the corruption of the system – be devastating,” said former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA.,) noting how the famous ex-Democrats could move to open up entire new strategies for Donald Trump.
Even Green Party candidate Jill Stein echoed similar sentiments, saying on X that
“We may disagree with RFK Jr. about many things, but he’s right about how the Democrat Party uses lawfare and dirty tricks to suppress democratic competition and voter choice.
"The Dems preach about ‘saving democracy’ – but in reality they’re working overtime to stamp it out.”
Senior Trump aides and outside advisers have been buoyed by the the once-unimaginable possibilities that:
- Gabbard could actively help make a case for women to return to the GOP – and prep the him for his debate with Kamala Harris; and
- Kennedy would lend his famous family name and political capital to lure defectors, especially the young and first-time voters who flocked to his independent campaign
Trump advisers credited the former president with being willing to set aside potential grievances – Musk runs a rival to Trump’s Truth Social platform and Kennedy lambasted Trump during his campaign – and to reach out behind the scenes and court big-name Democrats to his side.
Likewise, Trump has recently agreed to set aside four years of vitriol with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and mend fences with the popular Georgia governor to activate a powerful political machine in that battleground state.
Gingrich also said that Mr. Kennedy in particular could play an outsized role in peeling young voters over to the Trump team who had flocked to Kennedy's "independent" campaign after Joe Biden and his campaign of fought to keep Kennedy of a state ballots and have hindered his every effort.
The retribution and censorship that Democrats repeatedly tried to impose on Kennedy have made him authentically sympathetic, the former speaker noted.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley told Just the News the fact that Kennedy followed Musk and Gabbard out of the Democrat fold is important “on two levels,”
“First it shows you that today’s Democrat Party is leaving these people behind. Today’s Democratic Party is so radical, so dangerous, so progressive, that there are millions of Democrats who are leaving that party every day.,” Whatley told the “John Solomon Reports” podcast.
“We’re seeing 1,000s of them that are coming our way.
"Second, just look at the voter registration statistics in places like Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan and around the country. That’s a huge thing, that people are leaving the Democrat Party – because, frankly, the Democrat Party has left them.
Recently, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to X to blast the party of his father and uncle:
"My dad and uncle’s party [were] the champion of voting rights and fair elections.
"VP Harris’s is the party of lawfare, disenfranchisement, and the coronation of its candidates by corporate donors and party elites,” Kennedy said.
He said Democrats’ efforts to keep him off the ballot and hamstring his campaign with lawsuits was “undemocratic” – as was the move by party insiders to make Ms. Harris the presidential nominee without a single primary vote.
"It is corrupt, and is no longer responsive to the American people," added Gingrich.
