Tulsi Gabbard will not run as independent if loses Democratic nomination - report

Tulsi Gabbard will not run as an independent candidate for the US Presidential elections if she loses Democratic nomination, CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto said in a tweet.

The 2020 presidential campaign of Tulsi Gabbard began on January 11, 2019. If Gabbard were to win, she would become the first female, Hindu, and Samoan president in American history, and would be the youngest person to ever hold the office at the age of 39.

A military combat veteran, Gabbard is currently serving as the US Representative for Hawaii's second congressional district. Elected in 2012, she became the first Samoan American and the first Hindu member of the United States Congress.

Gabbard served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2002 to 2004. When she was elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives at age 21, she was the youngest woman to be elected to a US state legislature.

Breaking: Rep @TulsiGabbard tells me she will NOT run as an independent if she loses the Democratic nomination. @CNNnewsroom

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 29, 2019

She 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.

Gabbard 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 opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership. She is critical of interventionism in Iraq, Libya, Venezuela,[1] and Syria. She supports abortion rights, Medicare for All, and same-sex marriage.