Former Hawaii congresswoman and recent departee of the Democratic Party Tulsi Gabbard compared President Joe Biden to Adolf Hitler while campaigning for a Republican Senate candidate on Sunday.
Gabbard had been speaking at an event for New Hampshire GOP Senate candidate Don Bolduc when she said she was “pretty sure” both Biden and Hitler had good intentions to justify their authoritarian behavior. The former Democrat also stated she was sure that authoritarians and dictators throughout history “all believe they’re doing what’s best,” according to audio obtained by The Daily Beast.
“Even Hitler thought he was doing what was best for Germany, right? For the German race,” Gabbard said. “In his own mind, he found a way to justify the means to meet his end. So when we have people with that mindset, well, you know we’ve got to do whatever it takes because, as President Biden said in that speech in Philadelphia, that those who supported Trump, those who didn’t vote for him are extremists and a threat to our democracy.”
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Gabbard’s comparison comes over a month after Biden delivered a prime-time speech in Philadelphia on Sept. 1, when he attacked former President Donald Trump and his allies. Many people condemned the speech for being divisive, with some, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), comparing Biden to Hitler.
The former congresswoman had previously run for president under the Democratic Party in 2020. Gabbard said in a radio interview on Monday that she has not ruled out another presidential run, but that doing so is “not something I am thinking about right now,” according to the New Hampshire Union Leader.
In addition to campaigning for Bolduc, Gabbard is also scheduled to campaign for Arizona gubernatorial GOP candidate Kari Lake during an event on Tuesday, which will also feature Blake Masters, the state’s GOP candidate for Senate, and Abe Hamadeh, the candidate for Arizona attorney general. Lake, Masters, and Hamadeh have all been endorsed by Trump.
Bolduc, a retired military general, trails behind Sen. Maggie Hassan by an average of 8 percentage points only three weeks ahead of the midterm elections, according to FiveThirtyEight. The Republican candidate has faced scrutiny in the past for his beliefs regarding vaccines and unfounded claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
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