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Neither involve the Democratic Party, which Gabbard used to represent until she left it in 2022. The four-term former member of Congress from Hawaii is now getting consideration for both former President Donald Trump’s and independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tickets, two sources familiar with the candidates’ deliberations told NBC News.

It’s a remarkable turnaround for the onetime progressive rising star, who within the span of eight years has gone from supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign to running for the Democratic presidential nomination herself in 2020, eventually endorsing President Joe Biden, before then gravitating to the right and becoming a regular conservative media personality and conference speaker.

More so, it’s exceedingly rare for a politician to attract interest from more than one presidential ticket or party. (Ahead of the 1952 election, Democrats and Republicans led dueling efforts to draft another politically ambiguous veteran, Dwight Eisenhower, the former supreme Allied commander in Europe during World War II, for the presidential race.)

But Gabbard’s 2024 possibilities are not fully in her control, nor are they both equally likely. As one source said, Gabbard would be more likely to seriously consider running as Kennedy’s vice presidential nominee had she not been swept up by the possibility of serving with Trump. This person said Gabbard “was enticed” by the chance of serving on Kennedy’s ticket but is now focused on the possibility that Trump will select her.

“My understanding is that Tulsi is convinced that Trump is going to pick her,” this person said. “Had that not been the case, she probably would have gone with Kennedy.”

Trump allies and insiders say that while she may be getting a look from the former president, she’s an unlikely choice at best, though she could still land another role in the campaign or in a potential future administration. Some on the right have floated her for defense secretary or another national security post. She was one of the only Democrats who met with Trump during his transition in 2016, as he was interviewing people for posts in his administration.

“I think most people on team Trump view her as someone who ultimately won’t be picked as VP, but could end up with a different role when all is said and done,” a Trump-world adviser said.

While Gabbard does have some positives that would appeal to Trump on a prospective ticket — including having taken positions on both sides of the abortion rights battle and generated a viral debate moment against then-Sen. Kamala Harris — a person familiar with Trump’s private discussions said a major strike against her is that she’s previously sought the presidency herself.

That person said “there’s a very specific calculus that’s going into” the vice presidential selection process, noting Trump doesn’t want to anoint someone with their own presidential ambitions who might be seen as his successor.

On the possibility Gabbard is picked, this person said: “Everyone is trying to get their PR right now.”

‘Quite a leap’

Both Trump and Kennedy have made public their interest in Gabbard, 42, within the past month. And it comes as Gabbard raises her own profile. She has a brand-new book — subtitle: “Leave the Democrat Party Behind” — with Kennedy’s book publisher, who is also the chairman of the main super PAC supporting him. And she created a new leadership PAC, registered using a GOP treasurer and bank.

A person familiar with the event told NBC News that Kennedy met with Gabbard while campaigning in Hawaii in mid-January, and she has been on the public list of names the campaign has put forward of possible running mates.

Meanwhile, during a Fox News town hall in South Carolina in late February, host Laura Ingraham rattled off a list of possible VP picks that included Gabbard. “All of those people are good — they’re all solid,” Trump said.

Mark Longabaugh, a former top Sanders strategist who worked with Gabbard when she was a leading surrogate for his 2016 presidential campaign — Sanders gave her the honor of being the one to formally nominate him at the Democratic National Convention — said Gabbard’s political evolution is “quite a leap.”

He believes she’d be a better fit ideologically for Kennedy than for Trump, though he noted both Gabbard and Trump have taken contradictory positions on multiple issues over their careers.

“Maybe she is a perfect match for Trump,” he said. “Trump has no convictions. So it’d be the ‘no convictions ticket.’”

The former congresswoman has expressed in multiple interviews that she would be interested in serving as Trump’s vice president, including on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

“I would be open to that,” she told Fox News host Jesse Watters when asked this month about serving as Trump’s running mate.

Gabbard has fielded the question in recent interviews with conservative media personalities, but responding to a request for comment from NBC News, a Gabbard spokesperson described questions about her interest in serving as a running mate for either Trump or Kennedy as “based on speculation, gossip and hypotheticals.”

“Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard believes these questions to be premature,” said Erika Tsuji, who was also the communications director for Gabbard’s 2020 campaign. “She’d be happy to take a rain check if things move from spe