Who is Tulsi Gabbard?

Published June 27, 2019 12:30am ET



The Democratic presidential primary race has largely focused on domestic issues, such as reversing the Trump tax cuts, expanding healthcare, and gun control. But Rep. Tulsi Gabbard stands out in the field for her discussion of international affairs, from a noninterventionist perspective, skeptical of many foreign entanglements and against using military force against Iran.

Still, Gabbard, 38, is no peacenik. The American Samoa native 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.

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