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Tulsi Gabbard breaks through in fiery debate performance

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN

Updated 9:59 AM EDT, Thu August 1, 2019goo

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Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard emerged from the crowd of candidates Wednesday night with a performance that ranged from adversarial to deeply personal.

 

Gabbard ended the night asGoogle’s most searched candidatein a presidential primary debate that was otherwise dominated by former Vice President Joe Biden’s defense of his record against attacks from other candidates. Prior to the debate, her campaign has largely been marked by low poll numbers and controversy surrounding her past views on gay marriage and LGBTQ equality. A CNN poll released earlier this month found Gabbard holds just 1% support.

 

In one of the debate’s most intense exchanges, Gabbard assailed Sen. Kamala Harris for her record as California’s attorney general, stating people “suffered under your reign as prosecutor.”

 

“I want to bring the conversation back to the broken criminal justice system that is disproportionately negatively affecting black and brown people all across this country today. Sen. Harris has said she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor and she’ll be a prosecutor president, but I’m deeply concerned about this record,” Gabbard said.

 

When Harris defended herself, stating she was “proud” of work within the criminal justice system, Gabbard doubled down.

 

“The bottom line is, Sen. Harris, when you were in a position to make a difference and an impact in these people’s lives, you did not and worse. Yet in the case of those who were on death row, innocent people, you actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do so,” she said. “There’s no excuse for that and the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology.”

 

But Gabbard’s debate performance wasn’t just marked by confrontation. She wielded her credentials as an Iraq war veteran to speak about foreign policy decisions in a personal manner, charging the US must “bring our troops home.”