Howard Dean to CNN: All Dem candidates qualified to be president except Tulsi Gabbard
Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said early Thursday that he believes all the party's candidates are qualified to the president, except for Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii).
"I don't think Tulsi Gabbard knows what she's doing and I don't think she ... is qualified. She's not qualified," Dean responded.
"And what's that based on?" asked CNN "New Day" co-host Alisyn Camerota.
"About her dalliances with [Syrian president Bashir al-Assad], her statements about gay people. ... I don't know what she thinks she's doing.”
Gabbard, a Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii ... met with Assad in 2017 during what her office characterized as a “fact-finding” mission in the war-torn region.
Dean's referenced to her "statements about gay people" derives from Gabbard's previous work for an anti-LGBTQ organization organized by her father and testimony against legislation in 2004 that expanded a civil union bill LGBTQ rights while she served in the Hawaii state legislature.
A CNN report said Gabbard argued at the time that Democrats "should be representing the views of the people, not a small number of homosexual extremists."
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