Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is stumbling out the gate after announcing her intention to run for President in 2020.
The congressmember will hold hold a rally Feb. 2 in Hawaii to formally launch her 2020 campaign.
Gabbard will use the rally in Oahu to "gather with friends, family, and supporters to share her vision for the future of our nation," her campaign said.
The rally will also give her campaign a chance to get back on track after the four-term Democratic representative prematurely announced her presidential bid during an interview with CNN's Van Jones on Jan. 11.
Her campaign staff was caught off guard when Gabbard announced her candidacy earlier this month. Her website was not ready and a video had not been approved yet. No public appearances were planned immediately after the announcement to continue the momentum of the announcement.
The video was finally released Jan. 29, almost three weeks after the Van Jones interview.
On top of everything else, she got into a public spat with influential Sen. Mazie Hirono which upset Hawaii's Democrats and had to defend her past affiliation with an organization that had an anti-LGBTQ agenda.
And it doesn't look too good that her campaign manager Rania Batrice, an aardent supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders, has decided to leave the campaign after the rally. Gabbard's sister, Vrindavan, will take over the position.
If all that isn't enough, a popular state Democrat will be running for Gabbard's District 2 seat in 2020 giving the possibility that Gabbard could lose the Presidential race and the her Congressional seat in the same year.
Gabbard has been seen as a rising star for the Democrats until 2016 when she resigned from the Democratic National Committee when the committee threw its support behind Hillary Clinton's campaign so that Gabbard could back Sanders.
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