How Tulsi Gabbard's big moment with Kamala Harris is playing into Tuesday's debate
In a 2019 then-Rep. Tulsi Gabbard gained attention for her stinging criticism of Kamala Harris' record. Now, she's helping Trump prep for Tuesday's debate.
It was 2019, and the second Democratic presidential primary debate was unfolding in Detroit when then-Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii went for the jugular.
Gabbard didn’t target Joe Biden, who at the time was the front-runner.
She turned instead to Kamala Harris, then the junior senator from California, and unleashed a bitter attack that took her prosecutorial record apart in detail.
“I want to bring the conversation back to the broken criminal justice system that is disproportionately negatively impacting Black and brown people all across this country today,” Gabbard began, hitting Harris from the left. “Now, Sen. Harris says she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she’ll be a prosecutor president. But I’m deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite, but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.”
Gabbard won loud, raucous cheers and applause. She continued, accusing Harris of blocking evidence in a death row case, keeping people in prison beyond their sentences and supporting a broken cash bail system. Major applause broke out in the room several times.
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