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Some Americans Refuse to Abandon Presidential Candidates No Longer Running

Carolyn Presutti

   MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE/LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -- Two thousand "Vote for
   Tulsi" door hangers will arrive soon at Eileen Tepper's Bronx, New York
   apartment. But she's not sure what to do with them. Her candidate,
   Congresswoman [1]Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, dropped out of the Democratic
   presidential race on March 19.

   Tepper made eleven road trips, driving 400 miles north from New York to
   New Hampshire during the campaign, in support of Gabbard. She stood for
   hours at a booth inside a New Hampshire sports arena, her hands resting
   on a stack of navy hoodies reading "Tulsi 2020."
   "I've never really done anything like this before in my life," the
   energetic curly-haired blonde, told VOA in the midst of Gabbard's
   campaign.

   Her candidate's polling in the low single digits did not faze Tepper.
   During the campaign, Gabbard won just two delegates, both from American
   Samoa, of the nearly 4,000 available nationwide.

   'I dreamed a Tulsi dream'

   Tepper is a Broadway performer, who took a hiatus during America's 2020
   campaign season. Her YouTube contribution to the campaign #WhyTulsi was
   a [2]Gabbard tribute song to the tune of "I Dreamed a Dream" from the
   musical Les Miserables.

References

   1. https://www.tulsi2020.com/
   2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H24NcOwYwBE&feature=youtu.be

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