"I have decided to run and will be making a formal announcement within the next week. … There are a lot of reasons for me to make this decision. There are a lot of challenges that are facing the American people that I'm concerned about and that I want to help solve … There is one main issue that is central to the rest, and that is the issue of war and peace … I look forward to being able to get into this and to talk about it in depth when we make our announcement."
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Indicating her intent to formally declare her candidacy as the Democratic nominee for the US Presidency, to Van Jones, during an interview recorded January 11, 2019, for The Van Jones Show, as quoted in "Tulsi Gabbard says she will run for president in 2020" by Caroline Kelly, CNN (11 January 2019) · full interview on The Van Jones Show (January 12, 2019)
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Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard (/ˈtʌlsi ˈɡæbərd/; born April 12, 1981) is an American former politician and United States Army Reserve officer who served as the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021. Elected in 2012, she was the first Hindu member of Congress and also the first Samoan-American voting member of Congress. An unsuccessful presidential candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 presidential election, she
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