WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders is suspending his presidential campaign, ending a run that took him to the top of polls before a thinning field left him badly trailing Vice President Joe Biden.
Sanders’ campaign announced Wednesday morning that he’d make a speech laying out his decision shortly before noon EST. “The campaign ends, the struggle continues,” the announcement said.
Sanders’ intensely loyal supporters helped him pull off a virtual tie for a win in Iowa’s messy caucuses, a narrow victory in New Hampshire, and a lopsided win in Nevada that briefly crowned him the front-runner.
But Joe Biden’s dominant South Carolina victory helped him recover in the race, and buoyed by strong African American support, the collapse of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and last-minute endorsements from some of his top former rivals before Super Tuesday, Biden quickly slingshot past Sanders to reclaim his front-runner status.
Sanders struggled to reestablish himself afterwards, badly losing a string of primary states he’d won or come close to winning in his 2016 campaign as Biden ran up a near-insurmountable delegate lead.
When coronavirus hit, throwing the presidential primary into limbo, Sanders paused to regroup. But the pandemic crisis pushed the race out of voters’ minds, and facing almost-certain loss, he decided to drop his now-quixotic bid for the White House.
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Cover: Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders makes a point as he and former US vice president Joe Biden take part in the 11th Democratic Party 2020 presidential debate in a CNN Washington Bureau studio in Washington, DC on March 15, 2020. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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