“The leadership of the Republican Party has changed significantly,” said Gabbard, who recently announced she had joined the Republican Party, said during an appearance on Dr. Phil Primetime. “It started with President Trump’s first term and continued here over the last year and a half… until it became what we see today, which is really a big open tent party.”

Gabbard publicly transitioned from independent to Republican on Oct. 22 at a Trump rally in North Carolina, and she highlighted the former president’s welcome to her, Elon Musk, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Danica Patrick as prime examples of the new GOP.

“Really bringing people together not because, you know, we all passed some sort of arbitrary litmus test, but because we are engaged and very passionate about the issues that are most important to the American people that are rooted in our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. she told McGraw.

Democrats once shared a similar mindset, but that’s no longer the case, Gabbard argued, and McGraw seems to agree.

“It seems like we have fringe factions, really on both sides, that have a big megaphone and talk about these extreme issues that are being brought to the forefront,” he said.

“It appears that the Democratic Party has really been hijacked by these extremists,” McGraw added.

Big Tech’s political hijacking and manipulation has given rise to a new Democratic Party and has dissuaded many in the party from speaking out, according to Gabbard.

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“The fear that was created, I still can’t understand, how not a single Democrat in the House of Representatives or in the United States, not President Biden or Vice President Harris, has taken a stand in support for Title IX and equity for women and girls in sports and education,” she said.

“Not a single one of them stood up and said, ‘Hey, it’s bad to see boys competing with girls in girls’ sports,’ and I don’t think they all did. bought into the insanity of that point of view. They’re just terrified to stand up and tell the truth because they don’t want to be called transphobic. They don’t want to be called, you know, bigots. and all the other names they throw out there,” Gabbard added.