Tulsi Gabbard is overtaking Mike Pence as the third favorite to win the 2024 GOP presidential nomination — less than 48 hours after she resigned from the Democrats.
- Tulsi Gabbard has overtaken former Vice President Mike Pence as the third favorite to win the 2024 Republican nomination, according to bookmakers.
- This comes less than 48 hours after she fled the Democratic Party
- British gambling company Betfair has found that Gabbard’s odds of winning the Republican presidential nomination are 10-1.
- Former President Donald Trump remains the frontrunner at 11-8, followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at a margin of 12-5.
- Pence, who was in third place, moved into fourth place with a score of 16-1, according to Newsweek.
Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has overtaken former Vice President Mike Pence as the third favorite to win the Republican nomination in 2024, according to bookmakers.
This comes less than 48 hours after she fled the Democratic Party.
British gambling company Betfair found that Gabbard’s odds of winning the Republican presidential nomination are 10-1.
Former President Donald Trump remains the frontrunner at 11-8, followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at a margin of 12-5.
Pence, who was in third place, moved into fourth with a 16-1, According to Newsweek.
Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has overtaken former Vice President Mike Pence as the third favorite to win the Republican nomination in 2024, according to bookmakers.
Former President Donald Trump (left) remains the frontrunner with 11-8 odds, followed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (right) at odds of 12-5.
Gabbard’s inclusion, who dropped out of the Democratic Party on Tuesday, unseats former Republican Vice President Mike Pence to fourth place.
Gabbard, who left Congress in 2021, announced Tuesday that she is leaving the Democratic Party, accusing her former colleagues of being “totally controlled by an elitist cabal of warmongers led by cowardly cowardice.”
She attacked Democrats for “racing every issue” and stoking “racism against whites”.
They said they were “hostile” to people of faith and demonized the police.
Gabbard ended her statement by saying that the Democrats were “dragging us further and further into a nuclear war.”
Her announcement was greeted with excitement by a number of figures on the right, who welcomed her into the fold.
For example, New Hampshire Republican Senate candidate Don Bolduc said on Wednesday that Gabbard would soon join him on the campaign trail in his bid to unseat incumbent Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan.
Gabbard had already become a frequent guest on the Fox News airwaves and appeared in February at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.
Elected in 2012, Gabbard spent her first years in Congress leading the House Congressional Future Caucus With former Republican Rep. Aaron Shook — an effort to work across the aisle and make politics less partisan.
In 2016, Gabbard apparently aligned herself with the left wing of her party when she left a position on the Democratic National Committee for the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders, who she felt was heavily favored by the Democratic National Party in his presidential campaign against eventual Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
In 2020, she launched her own presidential campaign, competing for the Democratic nomination against Sanders, President Joe Biden, and others.
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She ultimately endorsed Biden, but was not invited to speak at the 2020 Democratic convention — a snub bestowed only on Gabbard, not any of the other Democratic candidates running against the incumbent.
During her run in 2020, Clinton suggested that Gabbard was a Russian asset, inspiring Gabbard to file a defamation lawsuit against the former Secretary of State.
The suit was later dropped.
