The former presidential candidate — who endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden when she formally dropped out of the race — responded to someone who noted her absence on Twitter, saying, "Reminder : @TulsiGabbard was 1 of 7 candidates that earned delegates during the Presidential primary. It has been a tradition that spanned decades for any candidate who earned a delegate to be offered a speaking slot at the convention. Tulsi was not invited."
"You're correct - I was not invited to participate in any way," Gabbard replied.
CNN anchor Jake Tapper followed up on the situation, confirming with Gabbard that she had not been asked to participate. "She was not told why," Tapper tweeted. "She's currently on a plane headed to Alaska, on her way to an Army Reserve mission to help out a small Alaska Native tribe with some critical infrastructure issues."
Earlier in the campaign, Gabbard had challenged the DNC to allow her to debate, arguing that arbitrary rule changes had kept her off the stage — and a sudden reversal of those rules had allowed former Republican New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Comment: Of course she wasn't invited. Gabbard intelligently challenged the lies, idiocy and incompetence of so many political hacks and animals in the DNC, that to remind the public that this viable candidate was intentionally passed over for the idiot puppet now running - would be a mistake. The DNC leadership could not get Gabbard off the stage and out of the public eye fast enough.
Many in the Twitterverse could see the implications of Gabbard's exclusion as well: