Former Democratic presidential candidate turned Republican-supporting independent Tulsi Gabbard rallied Republican voters in Brentwood against Vice President Kamala Harris on July 26.

Gabbard spoke to the Republican Women of Williamson County hours before her appearance at the Bitcoin2024 conference in Nashville.

Gabbard called Harris, who is now the presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, “unfit and unqualified” to lead the country, and "dangerous."

“She lacks basic knowledge, experience and understanding, especially when it comes to foreign policy,” Gabbard said, calling Harris insecure and warning that Harris will lead the country into “war.”

The former congresswoman is an Iraq War veteran and current lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.

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U.S. Army veteran Bill Gabbard, the uncle of former U.S. presidential candidate and former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, sings the national anthem at a Republican Women of Williamson County event in Brentwood on July 26, 2024.

Despite positioning herself as anti-war, the reality of her position has been called into question, along with her past statements parroting Russian disinformation surrounding the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War.

Gabbard charged that the Democratic party is “under the complete control of this elitist cabal of woke-warmongers led by the ilk of Hillary Clinton.” 

Clinton previously suggested that the Russian government was “grooming” Gabbard to be a third-party candidate, calling Gabbard “the favorite of the Russians.”

Gabbard served as Hawaii's 2nd District congresswoman from 2013 through 2021 and as the vice chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2013 through 2016. In 2020, she unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic nomination for president.

A moment from a 2020 Democratic presidential debate has resurfaced showing Gabbard and Harris sparring over policy, a moment that Gabbard recalled during her Brentwood remarks.

In 2022, she left the Democratic Party and declared herself to be an independent, but has since made frequent appearances on right-wing media and live events and has said that she would be ”honored” to serve as former President Donald Trump’s 2024 running mate, a nomination that she did not receive.

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Tennessee's District 5 U.S. Congressman Andy Ogles (left) and former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard at a Republican Women of Williamson County event in Brentwood on July 26, 2024.

Gabbard also made several vague claims about Harris — without evidence — including that Harris is only concerned with “the freedom for women to have an abortion all the way through the ninth month,” and that the Biden administration is “targeting people of faith and spirituality, especially Christians, in this country.”

Harris has gone on record that she wants to see the restoration of Roe v. Wade.

Gabbard called 2024 “the most important election of my life” and a “no-fail mission,” adding that “freedom is what is at stake in this election.”