Hillary Clinton has had a problem with young voters. Millennial women rejected the former first lady for Sen. Bernie Sanders, and now her biggest Democratic critic in the general election is the party’s only elected millennial woman.
Tusli Gabbard (D-Hawaii) gave up her position as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee in February to endorse Sanders instead of staying silent during the primary. She said at the time that, as a veteran, she could not support a candidate with Clinton’s hawkish position on foreign policy and military intervention.
“Secretary Clinton has a record and positions that will take us into a future that will include more interventionist wars of regime change,” Gabbard said on the Rachel Maddow Show in March. “This is something that’s deeply personal to me. I lost friends in that Iraq War in 2005 during my deployment there. I saw in my job in a medical unit every day that high human cost, and now here in my job in Congress that economic toll that continues.”
Despite the fact that Clinton has all but won the Democratic nomination, Gabbard is refusing to play nice like the party’s elders. She is still criticizing the former secretary of state.
Gabbard said that she still can’t endorse Clinton because of her support for military intervention in Syria.
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05.09.2025