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Rep. Tusi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) has turned to Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders to help her get her on the debate stage in Phoenix, Arizona, after a new standard was introduced by the DNC.
In a Twitter post on Saturday, Gabbard insists the rules had been changed intentionally with the aim of not letting her participate in the debates.
The new standard requires earning a minimum of 20 percent of the delegates by 15 March. The next Democratic primary is scheduled for 10 March, with voters in six states heading to the polls, in which Gabbard is unlikely to obtain the required percentage of delegates to share to participate in the Arizona debate on 15 March.
Gabbard earlier refused to end her candidacy for the Democratic nomination.
After Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the race on 5 March, there are now only three remaining candidates running for the Democratic nomination.
Comment: Gabbard's outspoken comments on the DNC, the war industry, and other crucial political issues make her - perhaps even more than Bernie Sanders, a strong threat against the brain-dead and destructive neo-liberal/neo-conservative polices and thinking of mainstream Washington. Though she is not likely to receive any help in getting to the debate stage, she is, in fighting this gross power play, calling attention to the fact that the Democratic party, and the Democratic process, is indeed broken.