Hillary Clinton Says Tulsi Gabbard Is A Russian Asset Groomed To Ensure Trump Reelection

(Washington Examiner) Tim Pearce October 18 2019 11:35 AM Hillary Clinton said that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is being groomed by Moscow to run as a third-party spoiler candidate in 2020 to help President Trump win reelection. The former secretary of state pushed the theory on the Campaign HQ podcast hosted by David Plouffe President Barack Obamas campaign manager in 2008. Plouffe and Clinton discussed hurdles the Democratic nominee would face and compared the 2020 race to Clintons loss to Trump in 2016. Plouffe asked Clinton about the part third-party candidates such as Jill Stein of the Green Party played in 2016 allowing Trump to secure key states. They are also going to do third party again Clinton said. Im not making any predictions but I think theyve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate Clinton said referring to Gabbard without mentioning the Hawaii representative by name. She is a favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far. Thats assuming Jill Stein will give it up which she might not because she is also a Russian asset. They know they cant win without a third-party candidate and so I do not know who its going to be but I can guarantee you they will have a vigorous third-party challenge in the key states that they most need it. In Tuesdays Democratic debate Gabbard accused the New York Times of calling her a Russian asset. The newspaper published an Oct. 12 news article about Gabbard stating She is injecting a bit of chaos into her own partys primary race threatening to boycott that debate to protest what she sees as a rigging of the 2020 election. Thats left some Democrats wondering what exactly she is up to in the race while others worry about supportive signs from online bot activity and the Russian news media.