Analysis: What to make of the campaign of former senator Mike Gravel
was in 2013 at the invitation of the Iranian government. He talks to his campaign managers “two or three times a day,” and on Wednesday, he paused an interview because a photographer, embedded with the kids in New York, needed him to Skype in for a photo shoot.
Eleven years later, Gravel has mixed feelings about the 2008 campaign. He intended to create a national wave for his citizen legislation plan, but he ended up talking about everything else: closing down America's military bases abroad, getting off fossil fuels within 10 years, passing universal health care.
Just three in the field have impressed Gravel. He had admired and agreed with many of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's ideas, thought Sen. Bernie Sanders was right on economics and was deeply impressed by Rep. Tulsi Gabbard , a veteran who is running as a critic of foreign military intervention and “regime change wars.” “I don't see anybody other than Tulsi Gabbard and Bernie, to a degree, taking on the military industrial complex. That's the biggest issue we have.
None of these are sentiments that Democrats want to see on their debate stage. The primary has verged on genteel, with the sharpest attacks coming when Biden's rivals suggested he had voted the wrong way on NAFTA and the Iraq War. Gravel holds some beliefs that could alienate voters; he has speculated that the 9/11 terrorist attacks might have been an “inside job,” worthy of a new investigation.to pledge their loyalty to the eventual ticket, an idea that Gravel scoffs at.
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