Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s first Iowa visit as a presidential candidate had a slow start: A flight delay in Chicago meant she had to cancel her first event in Des Moines with the Asian and Latino Coalition Sunday night. Her rescheduled event in the capital city just had 13 attendants.
While her Des Moines appearance was sparsely attended because of the changes, her afternoon speech in Fairfield was not. Roughly 200 people attended Gabbard’s stump speech at Fairfield’s convention center.
“It is those values of service above self that I would bring to the presidency,” she said, repeating the message at both events. “That is where we find the answer to so many of these challenges that we face.”
Gabbard’s Iowa debut hit on many points her fellow Democratic presidential candidates share: She said supports “Medicare-for-all,” wants to improve the immigration system and called for an end to government shutdowns. The military veteran’s talks were also devoted to tackling foreign policy and “regime-change wars,” like U.S. involvement in Syria.
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