New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Friday morning that he will end his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, citing his struggles to qualify for the party’s primary debates.
"I feel like I've contributed all I can to this primary election, and it's clearly not my time," de Blasio told the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe.""So I'm going to end my presidential campaign, continue my work as mayor of New York City, and I'm going to keep speaking up for working people and for a Democratic Party that stands for working people," he said.
De Blasio has struggled to draw more than single-digit support in national surveys of Democratic voters, and acknowledged his inability to meet the polling and donor thresholds for the party-sanctioned televised debates was the "central reason" behind his withdrawal from the primary race five months before the Iowa caucuses.
"The bar is so high so early that for a lot of us, clearly, some of my fellow chief executives, governors couldn't make that cut," he said. "It's clear to me that's a high bar and it's one that I'm not going to be able to meet."De Blasio ran a largely progressive, populist campaign for the Democratic nomination, but failed to gain significant traction in a field dominated on the left by liberal Sens.
He ended it? How can you tell?
Who cares?
Who cares?
It took him 4 months? Says a lot about him. He never had any chance. Ever
Should never have started...
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🤣🤣🤣🤪 He did .... who is that?
Hmph
But I thought the tall guy always wins?
GioBosche Que nominen al senil Biden o a Pocahontas y yá
A lot of editorial over-reach to call this 'breaking.' Its hardly even news.
Was he ever running?
He should have never entered it.
Thank God hes an ass
Was he in it?
He also drops groundhogs, which is the bigger story.
The big question is who is going to share in his zero percent of the votes?
Both of his supporters are reported to be disappointed, but groundhogs across the country rejoice.
Aw, and he was so close! Lmao!
Take that criminal Beto with you, you roof monster
Wait.........he was IN the race?
Gomer Pyle: Surprise Surprise Surprise
Good
🤷🏽♂️
That’s hardly “Breaking...”
Nobody cares! The president asked a foreign govt to investigate JoeBiden for the upcoming elections!!!! This is the only thing the media should be reporting. Literally the only thing!
A liberal Caucasian millionaire can't get any respect these days! What has the world come to?
Never had a chance just wants to blow donor money & travel
Finally some sanity, 15 more to go
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