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Breaking: Bernie Sanders Suspends Presidential Campaign

By Joe Setyon April 8, 2020 at 8:40am

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is dropping out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, his campaign announced Wednesday.

The move from Sanders clears the way for former Vice President Joe Biden, who is now the only Democratic candidate still running, to be the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee.

The news originally came in an email from Sanders’ campaign:

Inbox: @BernieSanders suspending his campaign. I respect his decision but I think this is the wrong move. pic.twitter.com/ny42qa6I6u

— Krystal Ball (@krystalball) April 8, 2020

Later, the senator later addressed his supporters on social media:

Today I am suspending my campaign. But while the campaign ends, the struggle for justice continues on. https://t.co/MYc7kt2b16

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 8, 2020

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders tells his staff on a call that he is suspending his campaign. Will hold a livestream at 11:45 am.

— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) April 8, 2020

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders bows out of presidential race.

— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) April 8, 2020

BERNIE SANDERS has dropped out of the race for president, his campaign has announced.

— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) April 8, 2020

NEWS: Bernie Sanders is suspending his presidential campaign.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) April 8, 2020

The democratic socialist could never quite garner the same level of support that he had in 2016, when he squared off against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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Still, Sanders was widely seen as the front-runner for the nomination after coming in second in Iowa and winning contests in New Hampshire and Nevada.

But Sanders’ campaign stalled after Biden won a much-needed and resounding victory in the South Carolina primary.

Within days, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar dropped out of the race and endorsed Biden, who won a majority of the delegates on Super Tuesday.

A day after Super Tuesday, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg dropped out as well and endorsed Biden.

The endorsements for Biden kept pouring in as the establishment wing of the Democratic Party rallied around him.

Sanders’ campaign was never able to recover, and Biden became the front-runner.

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Joe Setyon

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Joe Setyon was a deputy managing editor for The Western Journal who had spent his entire professional career in editing and reporting. He previously worked in Washington, D.C., as an assistant editor/reporter for Reason magazine.

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Joe Setyon was deputy managing editor for The Western Journal with several years of copy editing and reporting experience. He graduated with a degree in communication studies from Grove City College, where he served as managing editor of the student-run newspaper. Joe previously worked as an assistant editor/reporter for Reason magazine, a libertarian publication in Washington, D.C., where he covered politics and wrote about government waste and abuse.

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