As of Monday afternoon it's official: Hawaiian congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is now in the top five of the remaining Democrats running for president. Amy Klobuchar announced her withdrawal on Monday, following former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg's surprise announcement on Sunday night. While Klobuchar won't be the Democratic nominee, the Minnesota senator might have gotten at least one item on her 2020 wishlist, namely helping to puncture the presidential ambitions of Buttigieg, who she dismissed in one debate as a "local official."

Both Klobuchar and Buttigieg dropped out of the race after dismal performances—3.2 and 8.2 percent, respectively—in the South Carolina primary. Former vice president Joe Biden had a dominant win there on Saturday, with 48.4 percent of the vote, basically lapping Vermont senator Bernie Sanders who came in second at 19.9 percent. Billionaire Tom Steyer, who spent more than $200 million of his own money on his campaign, took third place with 11.3 percent and dropped out of the race that same night. No other candidate cracked ten percent.

Steyer's third place finish came just days after he appeared dancing onstage to "Back That Azz Up" with Juvenile in a video that Fox News described, wrongly, as "excruciating."

While the other candidates were sweating their performance in South Carolina, Gabbard was surfing in California, apparently as part of a campaign effort there ahead of Super Tuesday. Candidates are competing for delegates in 15 states, including 416 in California alone, where Gabbard is polling at an average of 1.7 percent according to RealClearPolitics, well below Buttieg, Klobuchar, and even Steyer.

In national polls, Gabbard continues to place last, with between one and three percent. She made headlines in 2019 when she called Hillary Clinton "the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long." She also went after California senator Kamala Harris during a debate in August, slamming Harris for her aggressive prosecution record during her time as California's attorney general. "She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana," Gabbard said. She also invited a lot of controversy and criticism for meeting with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in 2017, without telling any congressional leaders. She since condemned Assad's use of chemical weapons on civilians but said that the U.S. shouldn't be involved in a country that isn't a security threat, adding, "We have to stop being the world’s police." That anti-interventionist stance earned her praise from weird places, including Fox News's Tucker Carlson and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon. Gabbard's campaign has only raised a total of $13 million, which is less than one third of the $46 million that Sanders's campaign made in February alone. That said, she doesn't seem to be building up the same ground game as Massachusetts Warren or ad blitzes as former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg.

But, still, she's in there. Buttigieg and Klobuchar bowed out and threw their support behind Biden. And all despite not even qualifying for any of the last five debates.