TODAY: Gabbard To Lobby Senators For Confirmation

Playbook reports:

The shocking collapse this weekend of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has reinvigorated scrutiny about Gabbard’s past sympathies for the brutal dictator. Her 2017 visit to Damascus to meet with Assad — years after he gassed his own people — and her comments defending his rule have long exemplified the former Democratic congresswoman’s unconventional foreign policy views.

Now her past is both a punchline — “Wonder if [Gabbard] will offer Assad safe harbor at her house,” former Rep. Adam Kinzinger jested as rebels closed in — and a complication for her confirmation prospects as senators begin to take stock. As if on cue, we can report this morning, Gabbard has left an Army training assignment in Oklahoma for Capitol Hill, where she will begin to press her case in person.

Read the full article. According to Playbook, Gabbard will start today by meeting with GOP senators Lindsey Graham, Mike Rounds, and James Lankford.

The shocking collapse this weekend of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has reinvigorated scrutiny about Tulsi Gabbard’s past sympathies for the brutal dictator.

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