US Presidential candidate and active national guard officer Tulsi Gabbard has ended her congressional re-election campaign in order to focus on the presidential race (archived). Despite consistently low polling to this point and her lonely position as the only anti-war candidate in this cycles contested US socialist party primary, recent attacks on Gabbard delivered by Hillary Clinton have finally brought attention from the US "mainstream" media to her campaign. The field at present is otherwise crowded with largely identical candidates.