Posted on 03/01/2020 3:16:11 PM PST by NRx
Pete Buttigieg is dropping out of the 2020 presidential primary race, a senior campaign aide told CNBC.
He is flying to South Bend, Indiana to make the announcement, where he served as mayor for two terms.
The Indiana Democrat waged an unlikely campaign that saw a little-known mayor overpower governors and U.S. senators in the race for the party nomination.
Along the way, Buttigieg assembled a substantial war chest and a vast national operation. A two-term mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Buttigieg was the first openly gay major presidential contender. He scored a narrow delegate edge over Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucuses and finished a strong second place in New Hampshire’s primary.
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Backing out or pulling out??
What the heck? He did so well in early primaries and caucuses???
Is he broke, or made a back room deal with some other candidates to support them? What’s really going on with this?
The question is how much did she and her husband pilfer?
I guess it’s tough being a bottom.
Did he get a Trust Fund and a Dacha?
He has been fundamentally transformed into a dachniki?
I guess he’s not coming back from behind this time
Probably hoping to help Biden and get a VP nom in the process.
I’m genuinely surprised at this...he wasn’t doing badly. Seems a bit early to pull the plug unless he’s done a backroom (no pun intended) deal with one of the other candidates. Bloomy maybe? Or Sleepy Joe?
}:-)4
yep, quit now and pocket all dat campaign cash
low-class grifter
Backing out or butting out?
Interesting I just saw an ad for him the first one I have seen and I guess the last one.
Clearly paid off by Bloomberg and probably promised something by the DNC
C-theBS has not reported it yet.
As I posted on another thread:
I will await further, stronger confirmation before getting too excited.
I was wondering why he has been scarce on the campaign trail the last few days. I believe his campaign announced he was sick and was taking some time to rest.
I wonder if some really bad opposition research came to light—something so bad it would ruin his chances in 2024—and he was told by the candidate behind the research to drop out now or it gets released.
There is more to this story. Some day it will come out.
I sense a backroom deal somewhere. Otherwise, he would have waited until after Super Tuesday.
He’s decided to pack it in.
Homosexuals are smart. And he knows this is how he can become a nominee for the Vice President of a VERY OLD MAN who might win, and he would be living at 1600 Pennsylvania. I bet he plays chess and poker.
One less communist.
What a truly condescending jerk Buttigieg is.
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