On a special season of "Journeys of Faith," ABC News' Paula Faris sits down with 2020 presidential candidates and other political figures to discuss how faith and religion have shaped their politics. In this episode, Paula speaks with presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
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Here is Paula, in her own words, about the episode.
She’s the first Hindu member of Congress. She's been deployed to the Middle East twice. And she thinks her fellow Democrats are headed in the wrong direction.
Tulsi Gabbard, the Hawaiian congresswoman running to be the 46th president of the United States, is an iconoclast within her own party. She was the only House Democrat to vote "present" on articles of impeachment, putting forward a resolution to censure President Trump rather than impeach him, drawing the ire of many of her fellow Democrats.
Despite those tensions with party leadership, Gabbard tells me on "Journeys of Faith" that she believes she is “lockstep with the vast majority of Democrats in this country who really believe the Democratic Party should be this big open-tent party for the people.”
Gabbard opens up about how her Hindu faith carried her through her deployments, the challenges she faces in public life because of her religion and the daily meditation practice she exercises to keep her grounded.
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