Go Tulsi! The ONLY candidate with enough balls to take on the establishment and fight for the ppl. Bernie & Joe are too busy playing footsie with each other and rolling over for Trump, just what the DNC ordered! Couple of old corpses are done, nothing to see here folks, sham election over.
Gabbard, the only woman left seeking the Democratic nomination, has only earned two pledged delegates so far — making it virtually impossible for her to participate in the upcoming Arizona debate hosted by CNN and Univision.
After Super Tuesday, the DNC
raised the criteria for the
March 15 Democratic debate with candidates needing to have won at least 20% of the total number of pledged delegates allocated across all the past primaries and caucuses.
Gabbard lashed out on Twitter Friday night in messages directed at Biden and Sanders — the top two candidates in the race.
“I’m sure you would agree that our Democratic nominee should be a person who will stand up for what is right. So I ask that you have the courage to do that now in the face of the DNC’s effort to keep me from participating in the debates,” Gabbard wrote in a
tweet.
In a separate
tweet, the Hawaii Democrat accused the DNC of “arbitrarily” changing the debate qualifications in a “transparent effort” to keep her off the debate stage.
CNN has reached out to the DNC for reaction to Gabbard’s tweets.
Biden’s campaign declined to comment on her remarks, and the campaigns for Sanders and Gabbard did not immediately respond to comment.
Gabbard, who picked up two delegates from the US territory of American Samoa, appeared to get support on Twitter from two former 2020 Democratic presidential candidates Marianne Williamson and Andrew Yang, who is currently a CNN contributor.
On Super Tuesday, DNC communications director Xochitl Hinojosa
tweeted that there were two more Democratic debates and that “of course the threshold will go up.”
“The threshold will reflect where we are in the race, as it always has,” she wrote.
Gabbard has been critical before of the DNC’s polling requirements to qualify for debates.
Even though she had qualified, Gabbard threatened to boycott the October debate in Ohio, but ultimately decided to participate. Gabbard
said she would also skip the December debate in California, even if she had met the requirements. The last debate she qualified for was November’s debate in Georgia.
Gabbard
is still running — even after the field winnowed down this past week and she has not polled above 1% in recent national surveys.
She has vowed to stay in the presidential race until the Democratic National Convention in July, according to
Business Insider.
CNN’s Kate Sullivan, Annie Grayer and Sarah Mucha contributed to this report.
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