Dear Friends,
If you haven’t yet, please Google Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s hundreds of YouTube videos on the internet (Tulsi 2020) to see if you think she is a “puppet for the Russian government.” Then ask yourselves, “Why is she being totally ignored as a candidate for the U.S. Presidency this year?
Sharon Tennison
Center for Citizen Initiatives
CNN’s blatant and bizarre Tulsi Gabbard snub
January 31, 2020
By Joe Concha
CNN has held more town hall events than any of the three cable news networks over the past few years and continues that programming strategy as we head into the meat of the 2020 campaign.For the most part, the network has made an effort to provide every candidate on the Democratic side during the primary season with an hourlong stage to answer questions from moderators and voters alike. And that’s what makes CNN’s decision to snub Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) from a series of town halls just days before the New Hampshire primary not only odd but optically nonsensical.
Note: Gabbard is currently polling at 4.8 percent in the RealClearPolitics index of polls in New Hampshire. That puts her ahead of tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang (4.0 percent), businessman Tom Steyer (1.8 percent) and former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (no polling available).
So what do these low-polling candidates all have in common?