Tulsi Gabbard was not even invited to participate in the Democratic National Convention. Who was the last candidate to have won delegates but to have been treated like that? By my reckoning, it was Lyndon LaRouche. Is that who Gabbard now is to the Democratic National Committee? Lyndon LaRouche?
LaRouche's delegates were never seated, because the DNC held that, as a convicted felon resident in Virginia, he was ineligible to vote, and thus to be the nominee. But neither the Constitution, nor federal electoral law, requires that the President be a registered voter, just as there is no requirement to live in the United Kingdom in order to stand for Parliament.
In any case, Gabbard is not a convicted felon resident in Virginia. And she had won two delegates. If numerous lifelong Republicans, most or all of whom had retained that registration, could be given spots on Convention platform, then so should she have been.
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