(January 11, 2019) Announced her campaign to seek the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2020.
A practicing Hindu, her first name 'Tulsi' is from the Indian Sanskrit for 'Holy Basil', a sacred plant in Hinduism. She describes herself as a karma yogi.
Her ancestry is Samoan, German, and more distant English, Irish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and Cornish. Her Samoan roots are on her father's side.
Daughter of Carol (Porter), from Indiana, and Mike Gabbard (Gerald Michael Gabbard), who is a Member of the Hawaii Senate since 2006.
First female combat veteran to run for US President [2019].