Bernie Sanders Drops Out of Presidential Race
By Liz Goodwin 24 mins ago
WASHINGTON — Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced Wednesday that he is dropping out of the Democratic presidential race, after weeks of clinging to an all-but-impossible path to victory over his moderate rival Joe Biden in a race now frozen by the coronavirus crisis.
Sanders’ campaign said in an email that he told his staff on a conference call that he is suspending his campaign for president and was set to address his supporters in a live-stream event at 11:45 a.m.
Sanders, a democratic socialist who rose to prominence challenging Hillary Clinton in 2016, amassed the biggest financial war chest in the Democratic primary —powered by more than 1.5 million small-dollar donors — and shifted the race’s center of gravity to the left with his populist rhetoric targeting millionaires and billionaires. Despite suffering a heart attack last October, he attracted thousands of passionate young fans at rallies around the country, and became the race’s front-runner after winning the New Hampshire and Nevada primaries in February.
But Sanders, 78, faced a stunning reversal of fortune after former vice president Biden, 77, won by a landslide in the South Carolina primary on Feb. 29 and swept most states voting on Super Tuesday on March 3, amassing a delegate lead that Sanders was unable to surpass before the coronavirus outbreak postponed numerous contests. Sanders made inroads with Latino voters that helped him win the delegate-rich state of California, but he was unable to make up his deficit with Black and suburban voters.
In recent weeks, Sanders had ceased fundraising for his presidential bid entirely and effectively shut down his campaigning. He instead raised millions for coronavirus aid efforts and publicly pushed for expanded workers’ rights and universal health care to combat the crisis.
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