Former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard spoke last week at a Trump rally in Las Vegas, during which she described her departure from the Democratic Party: "I joined the Democratic Party over 20 years ago. ... And at that time, I saw a party that was the 'big tent' party."
That, according to Gabbard, is no longer true.
Former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also left the Democratic Party -- with which his family's name is practically synonymous -- and ran as an independent this year before withdrawing and throwing his support behind former President Donald Trump. Kennedy's former running mate, Nicole Shanahan, ex-wife of billionaire Google co-founder Sergey Brin, is a longtime megadonor to Democrats. Shanahan is now funding brilliantly crafted videos defending the MAGA and MAHA ("Make America Healthy Again") movements.
Kennedy's, Gabbard's and Shanahan's endorsements of Trump are further proof that Trump's Republican Party is now the country's "big tent" party.
Trump's candidacy is not only supported by highly visible individual Democrats but by impressive swaths of once reliably Democrat voters. A recent NAACP poll shows Trump with support from over a quarter of Black men under 50; less than half of that demographic plan to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. Summer polls by Rasmussen and Forbes/HarrisX show Trump either tied with or slightly ahead of Harris with Hispanics, a group Democrats have traditionally won by 30 or 40 points. Even Jews are supporting Trump in record numbers; many were likely prompted to switch candidates after witnessing........