Elizabeth Warren to drop out

Source: Politico | March 5, 2020 | Alex Thompson

The Massachusetts senator is exiting the presidential race after an abysmal Super Tuesday.

Elizabeth Warren is dropping out of the Democratic primary, according to a person with her campaign, after losing across the map on Super Tuesday, including in her home state of Massachusetts.

Warren’s campaign had signaled as recently as Sunday that she would stay in the race all the way to the Democratic convention this summer. But her dismal performance this week combined with Joe Biden’s resurgence led her to conclude that she no longer had a viable path forward.

Warren had been holed up in Massachusetts since Tuesday to “assess” the race with her team. In an email to staffers Wednesday, campaign manager Roger Lau acknowledged that Tuesday’s results “fell well short of viability goals and projections, and we are disappointed in the results.” The campaign had projected coming in the top two in at least eight of the 14 states that voted Tuesday, but failed to hit that mark in any of them.

While she looks likely to collect several dozen delegates, that’s far fewer than the significant number her team had expected.

Warren’s campaign had gone on hiatus since Super Tuesday, sending no fundraising emails and going largely silent on social media.

Warren’s exit marks the departure of the last viable female candidate in the race after a historically diverse field of women and people of color. The race has winnowed down to two white men in their late 70s, a former vice president and the runner-up in the last presidential primary.

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