Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are actively pursuing endorsements from their opponent’s party in the presidential race, with Trump securing more high-profile endorsements than Harris. Trump has garnered support from notable figures such as Tesla CEO Elon Musk, independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. In contrast, Harris has faced challenges in attracting significant endorsements from Republicans.
During his speech on Monday at a National Guard Association conference in Detroit, Trump said, “This fight is no longer between Democrats and Republicans. This is a fight between communism and freedom, very serious fight. That’s why millions of traditional Democrats, including FDR Democrats, JFK Democrats, independents and old fashioned liberals are joining our movement. Our poll numbers are great. We’re uniting forces to end the endless foreign wars, stop the censorship, end weaponization of our government, defend our borders, rebuild our middle class, protect the health of our children, and, above all, restore our republic.”
Gabbard officially endorsed Trump on Monday, citing his foreign policy record as a key factor. Having served in a field medical unit of the Hawaii Army National Guard during her deployment to Iraq from 2004 to 2005, and later as an Army Military Police platoon leader in Kuwait from 2008 to 2009, Gabbard’s military background underscores her perspective on foreign policy matters, Just the News reported.
“I know that President Trump understands the grave responsibility that a president and Commander-in-Chief 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. “We saw this through his first term in the presidency when he not only didn’t start any new wars, he took action to de-escalate and prevent wars. He exercised the courage that we expect from our Commander-in-Chief in exhausting all measures of diplomacy, having the courage to meet with adversaries, dictators, allies, and partners alike, in the pursuit of peace, seeing war as a last resort.
“The truth is, as we head towards our decision as a country in November, the same cannot be said about Kamala Harris,” she continued. “In fact, the opposite is true, and we’re living through this reality today as this administration has us facing multiple wars on multiple fronts in regions around the world, and closer to the brink of nuclear war than we ever have been before.”
On Friday, Kennedy suspended his presidential campaign and immediately endorsed Trump. “I attended my first Democratic Convention at the age of six in 1960,” Kennedy said, recalling when his uncle John and father Robert Sr. ruled the Democratic establishment. “Back then, the Democrats were the champions of the constitution, and of civil rights. The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, imperialism and unjust wars.
“We were the party of labor, of the working class,” he added. “The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment. Our party was the bulwark against big money interests and corporate power. True to its name, it was the party of democracy.” Kennedy went on to say 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 added.
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