During an interview on Fox News, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) responded to Rep. Cori Bush’s (D-MO) attack on Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) by saying Bush’s comments showed a “lack of a spiritual foundation.”
Rep. Bush’s recently called Sen. Manchin “anti-black, anti-child, anti-woman, and anti-immigrant” for opposing Biden’s $3.5 trillion Build Back Better Act.
“It really just shows again, that this is a symptom of a deeper, a lack of a spiritual foundation,” Gabbard said. “Where if you’re not able to see someone, regardless of party politics, regardless of your position, whether you agree or disagree, if you’re not able to see another person, as a child of God, as someone that you can respect at that fundamental level, as a fellow American, then this is where we see all of this darkness coming from.”
“And so it’s no wonder as you were talking about the results in Virginia, that people chose to respond positively towards that message of hope, and optimism for our future, that message of coming together. That message of care and respect for all people,” Gabbard continued. “And this is again, this is where, this is where I find hope for our future. If we go back to those fundamental values and principles of who we really are, then this is how we can come together.”
Gabbard later added, “I think it’s important at a time like this to remember the words of Patrick Henry, in the Federalist Papers. He said let us trust God and our better judgment to set us right hereafter. United we stand; divided we fall, let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs. We have to be able to come together recognizing what’s at stake, the peril of our future, if we don’t come together.”
