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Tulsi Gabbard presidential campaign, 2020

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Tulsi Gabbard suspended her presidential campaign on March 19, 2020.


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“ I will bring this soldier's principles to the White House, restoring the values of dignity, honor and respect to the presidency and above all else, love for our people and love for our country.[1] ”
—Tulsi Gabbard (February 2019)[2]


Tulsi Gabbard announced that she was running for president of the United States on January 11, 2019. She suspended her presidential campaign and endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden (D) on March 19, 2020.[3]

On the campaign trail, Gabbard highlighted her noninterventionist foreign policy and military experience as a veteran of the Iraq War. "When it comes to the war against terrorists, I'm a hawk. When it comes to counterproductive wars of regime change, I'm a dove," she said.[4][5]

Gabbard was first elected to the U.S. House in 2012. She previously served in the Hawaii House of Representatives and on the Honolulu City Council.

Election results

Tulsi Gabbard (D) presidential primary results in 2020
State
Date
% of vote received
Pledged delegates
Iowa February 3
 
0.0
 
0
New Hampshire February 11
 
3.3
 
0
Nevada February 22
 
0.0
 
0
South Carolina February 29
 
1.3
 
0
American Samoa March 3
 
29.3
 
2
Arkansas March 3
 
0.7
 
0
California March 3
 
0.6
 
0
Colorado March 3
 
1.0
 
0
Maine March 3
 
0.9
 
0
Massachusetts March 3
 
0.7
 
0
Minnesota March 3
 
0.3
 
0
North Carolina March 3
 
0.5
 
0
Oklahoma March 3
 
1.7
 
0
Tennessee March 3
 
0.4
 
0
Texas March 3
 
0.4
 
0
Utah March 3
 
0.8
 
0
Vermont March 3
 
0.8
 
0
Virginia March 3
 
0.9
 
0
Alabama March 3
 
0.2
 
0
Idaho March 10
 
0.8
 
0
Michigan March 10
 
0.6
 
0
Mississippi March 10
 
0.4
 
0
Missouri March 10
 
0.7
 
0
North Dakota March 10
 
0.6
 
0
Washington March 10
 
0.8
 
0
Democrats Abroad March 10
 
0.4
 
0
Arizona March 17
 
0.5
 
0
Florida March 17
 
0.5
 
0
Illinois March 17
 
0.6
 
0
Wisconsin April 7
 
0.6
 
0
Ohio April 28
 
0.5
 
0
Nebraska May 12
 
2.7
 
0
Oregon May 19
 
1.7
 
0
District of Columbia June 2
 
0.4
 
0
Indiana June 2
 
0.5
 
0
Maryland June 2
 
0.4
 
0
New Mexico June 2
 
1.1
 
0
Pennsylvania June 2
 
2.7
 
0
Rhode Island June 2
 
0.6
 
0
Georgia June 9
 
0.4
 
0
West Virginia June 9
 
2.2
 
0
Kentucky June 23
 
1.1
 
0
New York June 23
 
0.8
 
0
Louisiana July 11
 
0.7
 
0
Puerto Rico July 12
 
3.1
 
0
Connecticut August 11
 
1.3
 
0
Total pledged delegates: 2


Gabbard in the news

See also: Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing and Editorial approach to story selection for the Daily Presidential News Briefing

This section featured five news stories about Gabbard and her presidential campaign. For a complete timeline of Gabbard's campaign activity, click here.


  • March 19, 2020: Gabbard suspended her presidential campaign and endorsed Biden. “Today, I’m suspending my presidential campaign, and offering my full support to Vice President Joe Biden in his quest to bring our country together,” she said in a statement.
  • March 17, 2020: Gabbard tweeted that primaries should not be held at this time because of the coronavirus pandemic. She said it would lead to senior voter suppression.
  • March 15, 2020: Gabbard tweeted that “the political elite/corporate media are trying to erase [her] candidacy.”
  • March 10, 2020: Gabbard attended the National League of Cities Congressional City Conference in Washington, D.C.



Biography

Gabbard was born in 1981 and grew up in Hawaii. In 2002, when she won election to the state House of Representatives at the age of 21, she was the youngest person elected to public office in the state's history. She served in the House until 2004.[6]

Since 2003, Gabbard has been a member of the Hawaii Army National Guard. She has been deployed on two tours of duty in the Middle East. Starting in 2005, she served as a field medical unit specialist in Iraq. During her second tour, she led security missions and helped train the Kuwait National Guard. Between the two tours, Gabbard graduated from the Accelerated Officer Candidate School at the Alabama Military Academy and received a B.S. in business administration from Hawaii Pacific University. She also worked as a legislative aide to Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii).[6][7]

Gabbard was elected to the Honolulu City Council in 2010. She served on the council until 2012, when she ran for and won a seat in the U.S. House. Gabbard was the first Hindu elected to Congress. [8][6]

In 2013, Gabbard was elected vice chair of the Democratic National Committee.[9] She resigned in February 2016 to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primary.[10]

Campaign staff

See also: Tulsi Gabbard presidential campaign staff, 2020 and Presidential election key staffers, 2020

The table below shows a sampling of the candidate's 2020 national campaign staff members, including the campaign manager and some senior advisors, political directors, communication directors, and field directors. It also includes each staff member's position in the campaign, previous work experience, and Twitter handle, where available.[11] For a larger list of national campaign staff, visit Democracy in Action.

Tulsi Gabbard presidential campaign national staff, 2020
Staff Position Prior experience Twitter handle
Erin McCallum Communications consultant N/A @epmcc
Erika Tsuji Spokeswoman N/A N/A



Campaign finance

The following chart shows Democratic presidential campaign fundraising, including both total receipts and contributions from individuals, as well as campaign spending. Figures for each candidate run through the end of June 2020 or through the final reporting period during which the candidate was actively campaigning for president. The total disbursements column includes operating expenditures, transfers to other committees, refunds, loan repayments, and other disbursements.[12]


Democratic presidential primary debates, 2019-2020

See also: Democratic presidential nomination, 2020

The following table provides an overview of the date, location, host, and number of participants in each scheduled 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate.

2020 Democratic presidential primary debates
Debate Date Location Host Number of participants
First Democratic primary debate June 26-27, 2019 Miami, Florida NBC News, MSNBC, and Telemundo 20 candidates
Second Democratic primary debate July 30-31, 2019 Detroit, Michigan CNN 20 candidates
Third Democratic primary debate September 12, 2019 Houston, Texas ABC News and Univision 10 candidates
Fourth Democratic primary debate October 15, 2019 Westerville, Ohio CNN and The New York Times 12 candidates
Fifth Democratic primary debate November 20, 2019 Georgia MSNBC and The Washington Post 10 candidates
Sixth Democratic primary debate December 19, 2019 Los Angeles, California PBS NewsHour and Politico 7 candidates
Seventh Democratic primary debate January 14, 2020 Des Moines, Iowa CNN and The Des Moines Register 6 candidates
Eighth Democratic primary debate February 7, 2020 Manchester, New Hampshire ABC, WMUR-TV, and Apple News 7 candidates
Ninth Democratic primary debate February 19, 2020 Las Vegas, Nevada NBC News and MSNBC 6 candidates
Tenth Democratic primary debate February 25, 2020 Charleston, South Carolina CBS News and Congressional Black Caucus Institute 7 candidates
Eleventh Democratic primary debate March 15, 2020 Washington, D.C. CNN, Univision, and CHC Bold 2 candidates


Campaign advertisements

This section shows a sampling of advertisements released to support or oppose this candidate in the 2020 presidential election.

"Invest in the American People" – Gabbard campaign, released February 15, 2020
"I Love Our Country" – Gabbard campaign, released July 31, 2019
"Integrity & Honor to the White House" – Gabbard campaign, released July 11, 2019
"These Freedoms We Hold Dear" – Gabbard campaign, released July 8, 2019
"Dedicate Our Lives to Service" – Gabbard campaign, released July 6, 2019
"For The Country We Love" – Gabbard campaign, released January 24, 2019

Policy positions

The following policy positions were compiled from the candidate's official campaign website, editorials, speeches, and interviews.

Immigration

Tulsi Gabbard's campaign website says, "We need comprehensive immigration reform to address our broken immigration laws and we need to have a serious conversation about the most effective and humane ways to compassionately secure our borders while building bridges and cooperative foreign policy with other countries. We need to ensure we have a clear, enforceable, accessible, and humane pathway to citizenship. Most urgently, we must pass DACA to ensure children who know no other home are allowed to remain in the US and take steps to ensure children are not separated from their parents. We must fund and equip agencies in charge of processing asylum claim and protect migrants, many of whom are women and children, who are going through our asylum process and fleeing natural disasters, religious persecution, or violence under an asylum status." [source, as of 2019-09-26]

Healthcare

Tulsi Gabbard's official government website says, "We need real healthcare reform that brings down costs, increases access to quality care, and ensures basic health services are available to all Americans. As a cosponsor of H.R.676, the Expanded & Improved Medicare for All Act, Tulsi Gabbard is working towards a system that will provide universal healthcare to all Americans—a standard met by nearly every other major industrialized country in the world. We need a system that puts people first, ahead of the profits of insurance and pharmaceutical companies. The Medicare for All Act is an important step forward." [source, as of 2019-09-26]

Energy and environmental issues

Tulsi Gabbard's campaign website says, "As president, I’ll tackle climate change by ending subsidies to big fossil fuel and agribusiness corporations, ban offshore drilling, harness innovation to create jobs in renewable energy, provide better opportunities for our farmers, and ensure every American has clean air and water. We need to invest in 100% renewable and safe energy sources like wind, solar, and geothermal. I also support a ban on fracking, ending the $26 billion/year in fossil fuel subsidies, as well as all subsidies or waivers to the nuclear power industry, which should itself be completely responsible for paying for its own insurance and paying the long term cost for safe storage of nuclear waste over centuries. I will also work to provide other incentives for a renewable energy economy.” [source, as of 2019-09-26]

Trade

Tulsi Gabbard tweeted, "Trump’s trade wars are a disaster. Billions in bailouts to farmers. Unstable markets for small businesses. We need trade policies that put the people first." [source, as of 2019-02-26]

Economy

Tulsi Gabbard's campaign website says, "From the Great Depression through the turn of the 21st Century, Glass-Steagall helped keep our economy safe. Repealing it allowed too-big-to-fail banks to gamble with the savings and livelihoods of the American people, with devastating, irrevocable consequences. Hawai?i, along with communities across the country, paid the price in 2008 with the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Today, the banks that were 'too big to fail' in 2008 are even bigger and more powerful now. We must reinstate Glass-Steagall and create a financial system that works for every American—not just Wall Street bank." [source, as of 2019-09-26]

Education

Tulsi Gabbard's campaign website says, "We need to make sure we are investing in the future of all of our children. In order to invest in our future, we have to provide adequate resources and meaningful accountability to ensure that all our students have equal access to quality education. The cost of tuition keeps too many people from pursuing a college education. We need to resolve student debt and guarantee college for all. From Trump University to Betsy DeVos, members of this administration have put a higher premium on personal enrichment than they have on improving our education." [source, as of 2019-09-26]

Gun regulation

Tulsi Gabbard's campaign website says, "The time for action is now. We cannot allow partisan politics to get in the way of taking meaningful action in areas where both parties agree and that have the support of most Americans across this country. Here are a few examples: Both Democrats and Republicans support legislation I have co-sponsored to ban bump stocks. Both Democrats and Republicans support legislation to uphold Second Amendment rights and strengthen the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. Now is the time for us to come together and to take meaningful action towards responsible, common sense gun safety reform." [source, as of 2019-09-26]

Criminal justice

Tulsi Gabbard's campaign website says, "Criminal justice reform is a bipartisan issue. We can bring down costs and improve outcomes by implementing alternatives to incarceration. Our outdated policies on marijuana are turning everyday Americans into criminals, tearing apart families, and wasting huge amounts of taxpayer dollars to arrest, prosecute, and incarcerate people for non-violent marijuana charges. We must stand up against for-profit, private prisons and a criminal justice system that favors the rich and powerful and punishes the poor, locking up people who smoke marijuana and ignoring corps like Purdue Pharma responsible for thousands of opioid-related deaths. As president I’ll end the failed war on drugs, legalize marijuana, end cash bail, and ban private prisons and bring about real criminal justice reform." [source, as of 2019-09-26]

Foreign policy

Tulsi Gabbard's campaign website says, "As president, I will lead this country to bring about a bold change in our foreign policy that bends the arc of history away from war and towards peace. That stops wasting our resources, and our lives on regime change wars, and redirects our focus and energy towards peace and prosperity for all people. The time is now to give up the gunboat diplomacy of the past, and instead, work out our differences with communication, negotiations, and goodwill." [source, as of 2019-09-26]

Impeachment

Tulsi Gabbard said in a statement, "Up to this point, I have been opposed to pursuing impeachment because it will further divide our already badly divided country. However, after looking carefully at the transcript of the conversation with Ukraine’s President, the whistleblower complaint, the Inspector General memo, and President Trump’s comments about the issue, unfortunately, I believe that if we do not proceed with the inquiry, it will set a very dangerous precedent." [source, as of 2019-09-27]

Other policy positions

Click on any of the following links to read more policy positions from the 2020 presidential candidates.

Abortion

Criminal justice

Economy

Education

Energy and environmental issues

Foreign policy

Gun regulation

Healthcare

Immigration

Impeachment

Labor

Trade


Campaign themes

The following campaign themes were published on Gabbard's campaign website:

“

Join me in ushering in a new century free from the fear of nuclear war. A world where there is real peace, where our people have time to pursue happiness rather than being forced to work constantly just to survive, where parents have time to spend with their children, and we build strong communities that care for each other and the planet.

In this new century, everyone has clean water to drink, clean air to breathe and access to nourishing food; everyone receives the medical care they need, has a roof over their head, receives the education they need and is able to find good paying, fulfilling work. People have financial security and don’t have to worry about making ends meet in their old age.

Our children, and children for generations to come, never worry again about nuclear war and no parent has to wonder where they will hide their children when the missiles strike. Our economy is not dependent on war, but is driven instead by innovation, green technology and renewable industries.

Our schools, parks and streets are safe so that our children can learn and play without fear; our first responders act as servants and protectors of the people, the community respects their service and sacrifice and we truly have justice for all.

We experience a purpose higher than just survival, our success in life is measured by our happiness and fulfillment rather than accumulation of wealth and status. We love and care for our neighbors, and respect each other regardless of the color of our skin, how we worship or who we love and we place as much value on character as we do on consumption.

In this new century, we work out our differences with one another with mutual respect and tolerance; we negotiate with other nations and resolve problems through compromise and diplomacy. We overcome the current pulling us toward war, and usher in a new era of international peace and prosperity built not on conflict but on cooperation.

[1]

”
—Tulsi 2020[13]

Gabbard participated in an interview series with The New York Times that asked 21 Democratic candidates the same series of 18 questions. To view Gabbard's responses, click here.

Archive of Political Emails

The Archive of Political Emails was founded in July 2019 to compile political fundraising and advocacy emails sent by candidates, elected officials, PACs, nonprofits, NGOs, and other political actors.[14] The archive includes screenshots and searchable text from emails sent by 2020 presidential candidates. To review the Gabbard campaign's emails, click here.

Noteworthy events

Video statement on LGBT issues

In January 2019, Gabbard issued a video statement addressing her previous opposition to same-sex marriage. "In my past, I said and believed things that were wrong, and worse, hurtful to people in the LGBTQ+ community and their loved ones. ... My views have changed significantly since then, and my record in Congress over the last 6 years reflects what is in my heart: A strong and ongoing commitment to fighting for LGBTQ+ rights," Gabbard said in the video.[15]

When Gabbard first entered politics as a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives, she opposed civil unions between same-sex couples and supported a constitutional amendment to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman. She also worked for the Alliance for Traditional Marriage, an organization founded by her father, Mike Gabbard.[16]

Gabbard said her position on LGBT issues changed following her service in the military. As a congresswoman, Gabbard co-sponsored the Equality Act, signed an amicus brief in 2013 challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, and supported anti-discrimination legislation.[16]

Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing

See also: Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing

The following section provides a timeline of Gabbard's campaign activity beginning in January 2019. The entries, which come from Ballotpedia's Daily Presidential News Briefing, are sorted by month in reverse chronological order.


2020

2019


See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
  2. ↑ CNN, "Tulsi Gabbard officially launches 2020 campaign after rocky start," February 2, 2019
  3. ↑ Axios, "Tulsi Gabbard suspends presidential campaign, endorses Biden," March 19, 2020
  4. ↑ Council on Foreign Relations, "Campaign 2020: Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Presidential Candidate," February 21, 2019
  5. ↑ Vote Tulsi, "The rise of Gabbard: No telling how far independent path will take her," accessed February 28, 2019
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 United States House of Representatives, "About Tulsi Gabbard," accessed July 15, 2019
  7. ↑ Vote Smart, "Tulsi Gabbard's Biography," accessed July 15, 2019
  8. ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, "GABBARD, Tulsi, (1981 - )," accessed February 9, 2015
  9. ↑ Vote Tulsi, "KITV: Gabbard elected as DNC Vice Chair," January 22, 2013
  10. ↑ Star Advertiser, "Gabbard resigns from DNC to endorse Bernie Sanders," February 28, 2016
  11. ↑ Democracy in Action, "Organization," accessed November 4, 2019
  12. ↑ FEC, "U.S. President," accessed July 16, 2019
  13. ↑ Tulsi 2020, "Vision," accessed July 17, 2019
  14. ↑ Archive of Political Emails, "About," accessed September 16, 2019
  15. ↑ YouTube, "LGBTQ Statement by Tulsi Gabbard," January 17, 2019
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 CNN, "Tulsi Gabbard once touted working for anti-gay group that backed conversion therapy," January 17, 2019
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