Howard Dean is running for chairman of the Democratic National Committee on a platform of a 50-state strategy, but that also apparently includes attacking members of his own party.
Dean didn’t think much of the news yesterday that former DNC Vice Chair and Bernie Sanders backer Tulsi Gabbard met with President-elect Donald Trump.
“Well, she’s an interesting person and the people from Hawaii basically have her tabbed as extremely ambitious with flexible principles,” Dean said on MSNBC, breaking into a laugh.
“She was a lefty for Bernie and now she’s talking about running against Mazie Hirono, who is a left-wing o liberal senator from Hawaii, so who knows what this is all about,” he added.
Dean was asked about Gabbard’s reaction to the “frank and positive” meeting with Trump, which he avoided and instead went on the attack.
“While the rules of political expediency would say I should have refused to meet with President-elect Trump, I never have and never will play politics with American and Syrian lives,” Gabbard said in a statement, according to NBC News. “Where I disagree with President-elect Trump on issues, I will not hesitate to express that disagreement.”
She added, “I felt it important to take the opportunity to meet with the President-elect now before the drumbeats of war that neocons have been beating drag us into an escalation of the war to overthrow the Syrian government.”
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