Last night Rep. Tulsi Gabbard went straight for top-tier candidate Kamala Harris at the Democratic debate.
She said Kamala Harris had blocked evidence that would have exonerated a man on death row “until the courts forced her to do so”. She also accused her of using prisoners as “cheap labor” for California.
But Harris did not back down: “As the elected attorney general of California, I did the work of significantly reforming the criminal justice system of a state of 40 million people, which became a national model for the work that needs to be done.” She said she was “proud” of that work.
That exchange was raised again in post-debate interviews where Harris swatted away Gabbard and called her an “apologist” for the murderous Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
Former prosecutor Kamala Harris doesn’t hold back in the post-debate analysis, calling Tulsi Gabbard an apologist for murderous Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, who kills his citizens “like cockroaches.” Harris adds “I can only take what she says and her opinions so seriously.” pic.twitter.com/erJV9lTYVb
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) August 1, 2019
It didn’t get better for Gabbard later either.
Anderson: “Do you consider [Assad] a torturer or a murder?”
Gabbard: “That’s not what this is about.” pic.twitter.com/CdNnJ78J4y
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) August 1, 2019
