Former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is scheduled to appear at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort next month.
Gabbard will be the keynote speaker at the 917 Association’s annual fundraiser, a night to “celebrate the Constitution” in Palm Beach on March 7, according to an invitation shared exclusively with The Hill. .
The event came after Trump, the current front-runner for the Republican nomination, confirmed that he was considering Gabbard as his running mate, among several other candidates.
The event’s dinner cost is $1,250, according to the invitation.
Gabbard retired from Congress in 2021 after representing Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District. She spent much of her tenure as a member of the Progressive Coalition, leaning even further to the left than many liberals in the House.
Toward the end of her career on Capitol Hill, she gradually moved to the right, and has since adopted more Republican views on some social issues while maintaining a libertarian, anti-interventionist approach to foreign policy. has been accepted.
She formally denounced the Democratic Party in 2022, calling it “elitist” and full of “warmongers.”
Since she left public office, Democrats have speculated that Gabbard could take up a possible post in the second Trump administration, and her harsh criticism of establishment politics has left her with no choice but to take on the White House. He pointed out that this was consistent with the former president’s own claims.
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