There’s no point in knocking Trump out of the White House if a Democratic president has only more endless war to offer, Democratic candidate Tulsi Gabbard has declared in a deleted, then reposted campaign tweet.

“I might get in trouble for saying this, but what does it matter if we beat Donald Trump if we end up with someone who will perpetuate the very same crony capitalist policies, corporate policies, and waging more of these costly wars?” Gabbard asks a room full of supporters in the clip, to thunderous applause.

If you share only one thing about Tulsi with your friends and family, make it this video. Over six minutes, this raw and emotional exchange encapsulates the reason she is running for president. #Tulsi2020pic.twitter.com/BaB3RxrKIq — Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) April 28, 2019

“The most attacks I get are not from Republicans,” the Hawaiian congresswoman continues. “They’re from Democrats, they’re from people in the mainstream media, they’re from people in the foreign policy establishment that you’re talking about, people who represent the interest of the military industrial complex.”

The clip, which went viral after reports that it had been mysteriously deleted from her feed, opens on an emotional testimonial from an Afghani immigrant explaining that she placed her hopes in Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders in the 2016 election, only to be disappointed when the Democratic Party rigged the contest in Hillary Clinton’s favor. “How are you going to fight your own party?” she asks.

It was said that it went up and was deleted within 30 minutes. (I may have retweeted it myself in that brief window.) If so, it may have been someone other than Tulsi who deleted it and/or made that decision. My guess is that she'd be delighted to see this go viral. — Lyndon Olson (@fanoonman) April 27, 2019

The tweet, which was supposedly deleted immediately after posting, went viral over the weekend, with supporters speculating that Gabbard had been intimidated into taking it down by the Democrats. For the 2020 election, the Democratic National Committee has required all candidates seeking its nomination to sign a “loyalty oath” pledging to support the Democratic nominee instead of running as a third-party candidate if they lose. Gabbard famously resigned from her post as vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2016 to endorse Sanders, and the video suggests her loyalty remains to principles over party.

Could this be why Tulsi deleted the video (if that's true)??Just another way the Dem party controls the primary process. This ensures that progressives can't speak out in ways the party establishment doesn't like... pic.twitter.com/ClGCFhI1VM — Michelle Ramirez 🐦 (@Michell90013145) April 27, 2019

The video was reposted by Gabbard’s campaign Twitter on Sunday, leaving unsolved the mystery of its disappearance - but it certainly made for a good story, and probably contributed to the video’s spread.

Democrats have vociferously opposed Gabbard’s candidacy, hammering not only the “Assad apologist” and “Putin puppet” narratives listed on the Republican Party’s opposition talking points, but also dredging up her work with her father’s Alliance for Traditional Marriage as a teenager, despite her public apology for that work and the evolution of her stance on gay marriage in the intervening decades.

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Despite a packed field of candidates - over 20 - Democratic voters have few choices outside Gabbard if they oppose American interventionism. Even Sanders has been reticent in speaking out against the Trump administration’s regime change campaign in Venezuela. Mike Gravel, the 88-year-old former Alaska senator whose campaign is run by a pair of 17-year-olds, is the only other Democrat to come out staunchly against foreign wars.

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