She is an Iraq veteran, 37 years old and a member of the United States Congress for Hawaii. Now, Democrat Gabbard has announced that she intends to campaign for her party in the 2020 presidential election.
Democratic MP Tulsi Gabbard wants to run for president in the US presidential election in 2020. „I have decided to compete and will make an official announcement within the next week,“ said the 37-year-old US news channel CNN.
There are „many reasons“ for their decision. „There are many challenges facing the American people that I’m worried about and that I want to help manage.“ She wanted to put „the theme of war and peace“ at the center of her campaign.
First Hindu member of the US Congress
Iraq veteran Gabbard is the first Hindu member of the US Congress and a member of the House Foreign Relations Committee. It represents the state of Hawaii.
Gabbard was criticized in 2017, when she met during a visit to civil war Syria not only refugees and opposition leaders, but also secretly ruler Bashar al-Assad. When the visit became public, she explained that she had not originally planned the meeting. However, when she was offered the opportunity, she promised, because from her point of view, every opportunity had to be used to „end this war, which brings so much suffering to the Syrian people“.
Gabbard was one of the most prominent MPs who sided with Hillary Clinton’s in-party rival Bernie Sanders in 2016’s Democratic primary election campaign.
By the end of December, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts had already positioned herself for the 2020 election. It is expected that ex-vice-president Joe Biden and Senators Kamala Harris, Corey Booker or Kirsten Gillibrand for the Democrats in the primaries could go. The former Housing Minister under former President Barack Obama, Julian Castro, has also recently formed an election committee.
