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Wednesday, February 05, 2025

Meet the guitar-strumming Kiwi surfer dude who's become US presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard's secret weapon


Stuff.com : When Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard went on the attack against her fellow presidential candidate Kamala Harris at the second Democratic debate, she didn't miss.

With 10 Democratic presidential candidates lined up onstage at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, Gabbard launched at her rival Harris over her record as the top law enforcement officer in California.

It was, as they say in presidential politics, a moment.

Later, she made a passionate speech about seeing the horrors of war firsthand in a field medical unit in Iraq, her voice breaking as she recounted two more fatalities in Afghanistan this week, before promising to pull all troops from the country in her first year in office.

At the end of the night, she was the most-searched for candidate on Google and the number of individual donors to her campaign had surged to 120,000. One CNN analyst was talking up Gabbard's performance as a potential game-changer.

"The Hawaii congresswoman entered this debate as one of the least-known candidates in the field. That should change - at least somewhat - after a strong performance," Chris Cilizza said.

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