Alarm in Kamala Harris camp after influential surfer Kelly Slater pictured with Donald Trump advisor Tulsi Gabbard

"It’s been such a long period of uninspiring world leadership and you are the antidote to the divisive, hateful, and often stupid clowns who manage power.”

After Donald Trump threw himself under multiple buses in a slow-witted performance against Kamala Harris in the first of three presidential debates, opinion was the notoriously press shy VP was on a hot run to victory in November. 

Donald Trump’s star had flown into the stratosphere after an attempted assassination attempt in July amid the sudden and obvious decline of president Joe Biden, but a mean and incoherent performance in what should’ve been an easy kill has, as the saying goes, shifted the needle.

Prior to the debate, Trump had prepped with the ex-Dem presidential hopeful and the most famous surfer in American politics since Richard Nixon, Tulsi Gabbard. 

Tulsi Gabbard’s political career began in 2002 when she was elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives, becoming the youngest person ever elected at 21.

Gabbard later served in the Hawaii Army National Guard, deploying to Iraq and Kuwait, and became the first female combat vet in Congress after her election to the U.S. House of Reps in 2013. 

She ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, advocating for peace and veterans’ rights, before leaving the Democratic Party in 2022 to become an independent, highlighting her disillusionment with party politics.

In August, Gabbard, a common sense centrist who supports native rights in the US, but ain’t afraid to call Islamic terrorism what it is, threw her political muscle behind Donald Trump, a move that highlighted, you’d think, the parlous state of the Dems if their most rational member is running for the hills. 

If you’ve got a few miles on the clock you might even remember when Ain’t That Swell interviewed Tulsi five years ago,

In a DM to the then presidential hopeful, Vaughan Dead, he of the Herculean glands and with a cock like bulging pear that would make even the straightest stud want to pry the buttocks aside and nose his way into the puckered goal, wrote: 

“We are huge believers in your vision for a better America and therefore a better world. It’s been such a long period of uninspiring world leadership and you are the antidote to the divisive, hateful, and often stupid clowns who currently manage power.”

Now, the world’s most influential surfer, Kelly Slater, has thrown pollsters a wild ol curveball by posing with Trump advisor Tulsi Gabbard outside Khalil Rafati’s world famous Sun Life Organics in Las Vegas where Kelly was attending UFC Noche.

What’s that mean for Camp Harris?

Will the late middle-aged surfer demographic in the US, which numbers into the millions, discard Harris and Walz and pair up behind the Trump-Gabbard ticket? 

And where does that leave the man in the carpark?

If you swing left, has Kelly-Tulsi got you leaning a little righter than you might’ve?