Tulsi Gabbard (born April 12, 1981) is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district since 2013. Following her election in 2012, she became the first Samoan American and the first Hindu member of the United States Congress. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Gabbard served in a field medical unit of the Hawaii Army National Guard in a combat zone in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and was deployed to Kuwait from 2008 to 2009. She previously served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2002 to 2004. When she was elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives at age 21, Gabbard was the youngest woman to be elected to a U.S. state legislature. Gabbard was a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee until February 28, 2016, when she resigned to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
As of 2019, Gabbard supports abortion rights, Medicare for All and same-sex marriage; she opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership. She is critical of interventionism in Iraq, Libya, and Syria. She also denounced U.S. involvement in the Yemeni Civil War and is outspoken against intervention in the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis. Her opposition to removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power by force and her voting and lobbying against LGBT rights prior to 2005 have attracted controversy. She has since changed her views.
On January 11, 2019, Gabbard announced her campaign for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020.
Forget about the LGBTQRXYZ stuff because everyone was against it before they were for it but it seems to be a contradiction on her being against intervention which is good yet she was criticized for not intervening in Syria? And now she is for it?
It’s written very poorly but the “she has since changed her view” is about gay rights only.
As much as I think this is good news, I'm skeptical of the debate mod and how she will be treated.
Oh she’ll get treated like shit. She has to be ready to flip the questions into her own points. They’ll set up the dems they like with easy questions but tough questions will give her an opportunity to shine.
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It could be interesting to see how some Dem tries to stand out among the crowd
Trump still wins.
Aim higher.
And with better tits.