What the heck did Tulsi Gabbard just do?

| 1:01 am EDT October 25, 2019
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We’ve given up trying to understand why Democratic Congresswoman and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard says and does any of what she says and does. She routinely spews the talking points of Putin and Assad, but insists she’s not aligned with them. She spews bizarre conspiracy theories about the Democratic Party, and likes to appear on the most deranged of Fox News shows. She recently began attacking the impeachment process against Donald Trump. Now she’s made her most bizarre move yet.

Tulsi Gabbard just announced that she’s quitting Congress. Well, she’s not resigning immediately. But at around midnight on Thursday, she announced on Twitter that she’s not seeking reelection for her House seat in 2020, because she’s now putting all of her focus into her presidential run. Here’s the thing: her presidential run is already effectively over. She’s polling at around two percent. She has literally zero percent chance of being the Democratic nominee. So what’s she up to?

One thing to keep in mind is that Gabbard has burned so many bridges within the Democratic Party, and she’s now so distrusted and despised by so many Democratic voters, she was going to face a Democratic primary challenger in the House – and she was going to have a hard time surviving it. But since her presidential campaign is a complete failure, why not just drop out now, and put her focus into retaining her House seat?

Clearly, Tulsi Gabbard doesn’t think that her presidential campaign is over, even though she’s all but washed out of the Democratic primary race. Is she about to prove Hillary Clinton right, by launching a third party presidential bid aimed at sabotaging the Democratic nominee? Is she making so many Fox News appearances because she’s planning to join the network as a token Democratic commentator? We don’t know. But this all makes zero sense. Something doesn’t add up here. Then again, with Gabbard, nothing ever adds up, period.