- Iraqi War veteran.
- U.S. Representative (D-HI) (2013-2021).
- (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].
- Resides in Oahu, Hawaii. (2020)
- Fox News contributor [November, 2022].
- Surfer.
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