Tulsi Gabbard

 Tulsi Gabbard (/'t^lsi 'gaeb@rd/ born on 12 April 1981) is an American politician, United States Army Reserve officer, and political commentator who was the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd district in the congressional elections from 2013 until 2021. Gabbard was the first Hindu member of Congress and also the first Samoan American voting member of Congress. She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election, before leaving the Democratic Party and becoming an independent in October 2022.In 2002, Gabbard was elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives at the age of 21.Gabbard was a member of an medical field unit of the Hawaii Army National Guard while stationed in Iraq between 2004 and 2005. She also served in Kuwait from 2008 to 2009, as an Army Military Police platoon leader.While a member of Congress she served as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2013 to 2016, and then resigned to support Bernie Sanders' campaign for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.During her tenure in Congress, she frequently appeared on Fox News to criticize the Barack Obama administration for "refusing" to say that the "real enemy" of the United States is "radical Islam" or "Islamic extremism.