{"id":130271,"date":"2019-10-18T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=130271"},"modified":"2019-10-18T21:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T01:44:00","slug":"cat-fight-of-the-century-gabbard-the-lioness-vs-clinton-the-feral-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=130271","title":{"rendered":"CAT FIGHT of the Century: Gabbard the Lioness vs. Clinton the Feral Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Gabbard Responds to Hillary\u2019s Russia Attacks, Challenges Her to Join Dem Primary<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By TOBIAS HOONHOUT<br \/>\nNational Review<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_130272\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-18-at-9.40.40-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-130272\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130272\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-18-at-9.40.40-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-18-at-9.40.40-PM.png 692w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-18-at-9.40.40-PM-300x176.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-130272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Tulsi Gabbard speaks during the Democratic presidential candidates debate in Westerville, Ohio, October 15, 2019. (Shannon Stapleton\/Reuters)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After Hillary Clinton suggested that the Russian government was \u201cgrooming\u201d her for a third-party run in the 2020 presidential elections, Hawaii representative and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard returned fire Friday afternoon, challenging the 2016 Democratic nominee to join her in the 2020 primaries.<\/p>\n<p>In a fiery response to Clinton\u2019s accusation, Gabbard called the former secretary of state \u201cthe queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The staunchly non-interventionist Gabbard has been consistently dogged by suggestions that her campaign panders to the alt-right and Russia. During Tuesday night\u2019s Democratic debate, she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/tulsi-gabbard-slams-cnn-ny-times-for-suggesting-shes-a-russian-asset-slams-dem-foreign-policy-consensus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">accused<\/a>\u00a0CNN and the<em>\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, who were co-hosting the event, of smearing her with \u201ccompletely despicable coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton made\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/hillary-clinton-claims-russians-grooming-tulsi-gabbard-as-third-party-candidate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">headlines<\/a>\u00a0earlier Friday for suggesting that Gabbard was \u201cthe favorite of the Russians\u201d among the field, and that the Kremlin was \u201cgrooming\u201d her for a \u201cvigorous third-party challenge in the key states\u201d in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/tulsi-gabbard-responds-to-hillary-clinton-russia-attacks-challenges-her-to-join-democratic-primary\/amp\/\">https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/tulsi-gabbard-responds-to-hillary-clinton-russia-attacks-challenges-her-to-join-democratic-primary\/amp\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabbard Responds to Hillary\u2019s Russia Attacks, Challenges Her to Join Dem Primary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}