Tulsi Gabbard announced her departure from the Democratic Party on Tuesday, calling the organization an “elitist cabal”.
In a minute long video, the former presidential candidate attacked the party accused them of being warmongers, demonizing the police and said that the Democratic Party was “dragging us closer to nuclear war.”

Towards the end of the Twitter thread, Gabbard said that she was leaving the Democratic Party and that if people could no longer “stomach the direction that so-called woke Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, I invite you to join me.”

Born on April 12, 1981, Gabbard was part of the United States Army Reserve as an officer prior to her career as a politician. Growing up, she was homeschooled which afforded her the chance to learn her parent’s business. Eventually, Gabbard went on to major in business at the Hawaii Pacific University. At the age of 21, she ran for office and became the youngest person to be elected to the Hawaii State Legislature. 

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Gabbard has declared that she is vegan and is a follower of the Hinduism. While serving in the military, she married her first husband Eduardo Tamayo in 2002, but the couple split after four years of marriage in 2006 due to what they called the stresses of war on military spouses. Nearly 10 years later, Gabbard married freelance cinematographer and editor Abraham Williams in 2015. 

A Forbes article from 2019 mentions that Gabbard was worth roughly $500,000 when she was running for president, however, that number might have changed since then. Considering that Gabbard is also a political commentator who might be paid to appear on television, her net worth could exceed the number provided above. 

In 2018, Gabbard used to own crypto-currencies like litecoin and ethereum. A financial disclosure from that year showed that she had purchased anything between $2,000 to $30,000 in the two cryptocurrencies. However, when she filed her presidential nomination, Forbes reported that she had written the value of both the assets to be $0.