Tulsi Gabbard

I said, yeah, of course, I'll take that opportunity.

And I went there and there was like people on CNN saying, oh, look at her.

She's a rising star of the Democratic Party.

I wonder what famous actor is going to play her in a movie and like all this stuff.

And it was so surreal for me because –

I just, you know, I had no idea what to expect.

I certainly wasn't looking for any of this.

And quite frankly, it made me uncomfortable.

I had been sworn in for maybe two, three weeks when I got the call saying, do you want to be vice chair of the DNC?

Like, what is a vice chair of the DNC?

Like, what is the vice chair of the DNC?

It sounds important.

It does.

It's, you know, I mean, I think there are four or five in the DNC, maybe a couple of more.

I'm sure the Republican Party, maybe.

I don't know, actually, if they have the same thing.

But, you know, in theory, you are an officer of the Democratic National Party and you have a leadership role in shaping the direction of that party.

I said, yeah, I will go and, you know, do my best to make a positive impact there.

Vogue magazine called my office one day and said, well, we want to do a special profile on Tulsi Gabbard.

And my press secretary came in and told me, I laughed, literally, like, you got to be joking.