Tulsi Gabbard and Dr. Phil compare ‘open tent’ GOP under Trump to ‘hijacked’ Democratic Party - Washington Examiner

Former Democratic Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Dr. Phil McGraw opened up about the differences between the “open tent” Republican Party under former President Donald Trump and the “hijacked” Democratic Party headed by Vice President Kamala Harris.

“The direction of the Republican Party has changed significantly,” Gabbard, who recently announced she had joined the Republican Party, said during an appearance on Dr. Phil Primetime. “It started with President Trump’s first term in office and has continued here in the last year and a half…into being what we now see, which is really the big open tent party.”

Gabbard publicly switched from being an independent to a Republican on Oct. 22 during a North Carolina Trump rally, and she pointed to the former president’s welcoming of herself, Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Danica Patrick as prime examples of the new GOP.

“Really bringing people together not because, you know, we all have passed some kind of arbitrary litmus test but because we are committed to and very passionate about the most important issues to the American people that are rooted in our Constitution and our Bill of Rights,” she told McGraw.

Democrats used to share a similar mindset, but that is no longer the case, Gabbard argued, and McGraw appeared to agree.

“It seems like we’ve got these fringe factions, really on both sides, that have a big megaphone and talk about these extreme issues that are being pushed,” he said.

“It seems like the Democrat Party has really been hijacked by these extremists,” McGraw added.

Political hijacking and manipulation from Big Tech has birthed a new Democratic Party and scared many within the party from speaking out, according to Gabbard.

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“The fear that has been created, like I cannot comprehend, still, how not a single Democrat in the House of Representatives or the United States and neither President Biden or Vice President Harris has taken a stand for Title IX and fairness for women and girls in sports and education,” she said.

“Not a single one of them has stood up and said, ‘Hey, this is wrong to have boys competing against girls in girls sports,’ and I don’t believe that they all have bought into the insanity of that viewpoint. They are just terrified to get up and speak the truth because they don’t want to be called a transphobe. They don’t want to be called, you know, a bigot and all of the other names they throw out there,” Gabbard added.