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Tulsi Gabbard turned down RFK Jr.'s offer to be his running mate, she says
ABC News ^ | April 2, 2024 | Beatrice Peterson

Posted on 04/02/2024 4:18:33 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man

Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who left the Democratic Party in 2022, declined an offer to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s running mate in his independent presidential bid, she tells ABC News.

"I met with Kennedy several times, and we have become good friends," she said in a statement. "He asked if I would be his running mate. After careful consideration, I respectfully declined."

Gabbard declined to explain why she turned down that offer, which has not previously been reported.

She is among an eclectic group of people whom Kennedy had considered for the role, including former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura and TV host Mike Rowe.

He announced at an Oakland, California, rally last week that he had chosen Silicon Valley lawyer Nicole Shanahan, whose younger age, work in health and artificial intelligence appealed to him.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2024; naturalborncitizen; noteligible; robertkennedyjr; trump; tulsigabbard; vicepresident
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Interesting. I wonder if Tulsi realizes she's not Constitutionally eligible to be vice president because she's not an Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 natural born Citizen being born in an unincorporated territory?
1 posted on 04/02/2024 4:18:33 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Smart.


2 posted on 04/02/2024 4:20:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Is that so? Her mother is from Illinois and her father, like her, was born in American Samoa and lived in Hawaii and served as a Hawaiian state senator.


3 posted on 04/02/2024 4:22:53 PM PDT by montag813
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I wonder if Tulsi realizes she's not Constitutionally eligible to be vice president because she's not an Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 natural born Citizen being born in an unincorporated territory?

So what?

4 posted on 04/02/2024 4:23:38 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Macho MAGA Man

They never seem to bat an eye at that restriction. No matter how much or how little foriegn spice attended their birth.

They figure, as long as they pass the Mark Levin test, they’re an NBC.

To wit:

U.S. NBC = Anyone born anywhere in the universe other than those born overseas to two non-U.S. citizens.


5 posted on 04/02/2024 4:23:45 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Macho MAGA Man

“...whose younger age, work in health and artificial intelligence, [AND MONEY] appealed to him.”


6 posted on 04/02/2024 4:24:16 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sovereigns trade unincorporated territories like baseball cards.


7 posted on 04/02/2024 4:25:31 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Macho MAGA Man

So John McCain wasn’t an NBC?


8 posted on 04/02/2024 4:26:02 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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Tulsi Gabbard Destroys Joy Behar - 11/04/2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUTChYKCTeo
9 posted on 04/02/2024 4:26:49 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: one guy in new jersey

Besides, that question was already answered when McCain ran for President. He was born in Panama.


10 posted on 04/02/2024 4:27:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Maybe Obama told her “You’re no more ineligible to be President that I am.” 😉

As Obama heard in Kenya as a toddler:
Ukizaliwa Marekani ungekua Rais huko. Hakuna bahati kama hiyo.

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English:If you were born in America you could have grown up to be President there. No such luck.


11 posted on 04/02/2024 4:27:55 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Fledermaus

That’s still in question.

https://www.thepostemail.com/2018/05/11/presidential-eligibility-and-senate-resolution-511-2008/

While American Samoa is a “territory” of the United States, it is not an “incorporated territory.” This is the same issue that faced Sen. John McCain in 2008, when he faced off against Monsieur Obama as discussed here. Among several issues in McCain’s case was whether he was born at the Coco Solo Naval Air Station hospital, a U.S. military base in the Panama Canal Zone, or whether he was born in a hospital in Colón, Panama, which has never has been a part of the United States.


12 posted on 04/02/2024 4:29:01 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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Tulsi still has a future. RFK Junior doesn’t.


13 posted on 04/02/2024 4:29:01 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart)
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Didn’t seem to slow down McCain much. Goldwater wouldn’t have been eligible at birth, George Romney and Ted Cruz have the same problem.


14 posted on 04/02/2024 4:34:33 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king (Just a Texas Playboy at heart)
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Doesn’t matter. As long as one parent is an American citizen where isn’t an issue.

I’ve had idiots here proclaim it has to be American soil. Another tried to argue only the 48 continental states.

I counted with why not only the 13 original colonies. The moron agreed.

The Constitution is written in English.


15 posted on 04/02/2024 4:35:03 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

So he picked another commie running mate instead.


16 posted on 04/02/2024 4:39:29 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Bob Wills is still the king

Goldwater was born in a incorporated US territory. As for Tulsi, not so!


17 posted on 04/02/2024 4:40:29 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Good. She is too far right.


18 posted on 04/02/2024 4:45:30 PM PDT by nwrep
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I just watched X-Files Jose Chung last night. Kinda funny to see Jesse Ventura mentioned today as a possible running mate for RFK Jr.

“You probably thought you saw something up in the sky other than Venus,but I assure you, it was Venus”.

Be funny if he was chosen and got to see the real dope on UFO’s.

Oh that’s right. I mean ‘Venus’.


19 posted on 04/02/2024 4:46:40 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Macho MAGA Man

obama don’t care ‘bout no constitution


20 posted on 04/02/2024 5:06:54 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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