Gabbard OVERTAKES Pence as third favorite to win the 2024 GOP nomination
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Tulsi Gabbard overtakes Mike Pence as the third favorite candidate to win Republican 2024 presidential nomination — less than 48 hours after she left the Democrats
- Tulsi Gabbard has overtaken former Vice President Mike Pence as the third favorite candidate to win the 2024 GOP nomination, according to bookmakers
- And it comes less than 48 hours after she fled the Democratic Party
- British gambling company Betfair found Gabbard’s chance of winning GOP presidential nomination is 10-1
- Former President Donald Trump is still the favorite with 11-8 odds, followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis with 12-5 odds
- Pence, who was in third place, moved up to fourth place 16-1, according to Newsweek
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Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has overtaken former Vice President Mike Pence as the third favorite candidate to win the Republican nomination in 2024, according to bookmakers.
And it comes less than 48 hours after she fled the Democratic Party.
British gambling company Betfair found that Gabbard’s chance of winning the GOP presidential nomination is 10-1.
Former President Donald Trump is still the favorite with 11-8 odds, followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis with 12-5 odds.
Pence, who had been in third place, moved to fourth place 16-1, according to Newsweek.
Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has overtaken former Vice President Mike Pence as the third favorite candidate to win the Republican nomination in 2024, according to bookmakers
Former President Donald Trump (left) is still the favorite with 11-8 odds, followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (right) with 12-5 odds
The inclusion of Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party on Tuesday, pushes former Republican Vice President Mike Pence to fourth spot
Gabbard, who left Congress in 2021, announced on Tuesday that she would be leaving the Democratic Party, claiming her former colleagues were “under the complete control of an elite cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly vigilance.”
She denounced Democrats for “racializing every issue” and fomenting “anti-white racism.”
And said they were “hostile” to religious people and demonized the police.
Gabbard ended her statement by saying the Democrats were “dragging us ever closer to nuclear war.”
Her announcement was received with excitement by a number of figures on the right, who welcomed her into the herd.
New Hampshire Republican Senate hopeful Don Bolduc, for example, said on Wednesday that Gabbard would soon join him on the campaign trail in his bid to overthrow incumbent Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan.
Already a regular on Fox News airwaves, Gabbard appeared at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in February.
Gabbard, elected in 2012, spent her early years in Congress leading the Congressional Future Caucus with former Republican Rep. Aaron Schock – an effort to work down the aisle and make politics less partisan.
In 2016, Gabbard seemingly joined the left wing of her party when she left a Democratic National Committee position to campaign for Senator Bernie Sanders, whom she felt was too favored by the DNC in its presidential campaign against the Democratic National Committee. eventual Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
In 2020, she launched her own presidential bid, competing for the Democratic nomination against Sanders, President Joe Biden and others.
That bid attracted a lot of attention, but only two delegates.
She eventually approved of Biden, but was not invited to speak at the 2020 Democratic Convention — a numbing only Gabbard received, and not any of the other Democratic primary candidates running against the now president.
During her 2020 run, Clinton suggested that Gabbard was a Russian asset, inspiring Gabbard to file a defamation lawsuit against the former Secretary of State.
The lawsuit was later dropped.