A person who lost part(s) of her body defending this country will be NO pushover.
She's less political than Kamala.
Has more substance wrt foreign affairs.
While she's not black, she is diverse.
Tammy Duckworth was born in Bangkok, Thailand, the daughter of Lamai Sompornpairin and Franklin Duckworth. Her father, who died in 2005, was a U.S. Army veteran who traced his family's American roots to the American Revolutionary War.[5] Her mother is Thai, of Chinese descent.[6] Because of her father's work with the United Nations and international companies in refugee, housing, and development programs,[7] the family moved around Southeast Asia. Duckworth became fluent in Thai and Indonesian, in addition to English.[8]
Duckworth attended Singapore American School, and for a few months in her senior year was at the International School Bangkok, and was in the class of 1985 at Jakarta Intercultural School[9][10] (then known as Jakarta International School). The family settled in Hawaii when she was sixteen. Her father became unemployed for a time, and the family relied on public assistance.[7] She graduated with honors from McKinley High School in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1985, having skipped the ninth grade. She graduated from the University of Hawaii in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and later received a Master of Arts in international affairs from George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.[11] She completed a PhD in Human Services at Capella University in March 2015.[12]
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