Tulsi Gabbard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Tulsi Gabbard

U.S. Representative from Hawaii's 2nd congressional district

Date of Birth: 12-Apr-1981

Place of Birth: Leloaloa, American Samoa, United States

Profession: politician, military officer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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About Tulsi Gabbard

  • Tulsi Gabbard (; born April 12, 1981) is an American politician and Hawaii Army National Guard major serving as the U.S.
  • Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district.
  • Elected in 2012, she is the first practicing Hindu and the first Samoan-American member of Congress.
  • Gabbard's announcement of her intention to seek the Democratic nomination in the 2020 US presidential election made her the first female combat veteran to run for president.In 2002, Gabbard was elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives.
  • In 2004, she became the first state legislator to voluntarily step down from public office for a tour of duty in a war zone.
  • 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 was a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2013 to 2016, when she resigned to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. Gabbard's domestic policy platform in her campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination is economically and socially progressive and has been described as "similar to Bernie Sanders ...
  • in many respects".
  • She supports Medicare for All and strengthening the reproductive rights framework of Roe v Wade by codifying it into federal law.
  • She voted and lobbied against LGBT rights in Hawaii prior to her first tour of duty, but since 2011 Gabbard has apologized for her earlier positions and now supports LGBT rights.
  • Gabbard opposes military interventionism but has called herself a "hawk" on terrorism.
  • Her decision to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and expressions of skepticism about his use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Civil War attracted controversy.
  • On October 25, 2019, Gabbard announced that she will not seek another term in Congress.

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