Elizabeth Warren ended her presidential campaign on Thursday but is not endorsing either of the two remaining candidates – Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders – at least not yet.
‘Not today. I need some space around this, and I want to take a little time to think a little more. I’ve been spending a lot of time right now on the question of suspending and also making sure that this works as best we can for our staff, universal PR for our team, for our volunteers,’ she told reporters outside her home in Cambridge, Mass.
‘We don’t have to decide that this minute,’ she noted, universal press release saying she would advise her supporters to ‘take a deep breath’ and think about who they would want to give their blessing.
Warren bowed out after failing to win any states in the Democratic primary process – even losing her home state of Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Warren declined to endorse either Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders after she dropped out of the Democratic presidential race
Elizabeth Warren also said she’d have more to say about the role gender and sexism played in the Democratic primary process
She acknowledged the role gender played in the race.
‘Gender in this race, you know that is the big question for everyone. If you say, yeah, there was sexism in this race, everyone says, whiner. And if you say, no, there was no sexism, about a bazillion women think, what planet do you live on? I promise you this, I’ll have a lot more to say on that subject later on,’ she said.
She also referenced the ‘pinkie’ promises she made with little girls on the campaign trail about a woman being in the contest.
‘I take those pinkie promises seriously,’ she said.
Her decision means there will be a female will not win the presidential nomination after women expressed their fury at President Trump’s election.
‘The hardest part of this is all those little girls who are going to have to wait four more years. That’s going to be hard,’ she said.
She choked up a few times when she talked to the universal press Release about her decision with her husband Bruce and dog Bailey at her side.
‘I stood in that voting booth and I looked down and saw my name on the ballot. And I thought, wow, universal press release kiddo, PR you’re not in Oklahoma anymore. That it really was a moment of thinking about how my mother and dad, if they were still here, would feel about this,’ she said.
‘It was a long time standing in that booth. I miss my mommy and my daddy,’ she added.
Elizabeth Warren choked up a few times when she talked about her decision to exit the race
Elizabeth Warren exits her Massachusetts home with her husband PR Bruce to face a crowd of reporters and discuss the end of her presidential campaign
Warren announced her decision Thursday morning in a call with her staff, universal PR thanking them for their work.
‘I know that when we set out, this was not the call you ever wanted to hear. It is not the call I ever wanted to make. But I refuse to let disappointment blind me – or you – to what we’ve accomplished. We didn’t reach our goal, but what we have done together – what you have done – has made a lasting difference. It’s not the scale of the difference we wanted to make, but it matters – and the changes will have ripples for years to come,’ she said.
She also vowed that ‘our place in this fight has not ended.’
‘The fight may take a new form, but I will be in that fight, and I want you in this fight with me. We will persist,’ she said.
Her decision means that the contest is a simple two horse race between Biden, 77, universal PR and Sanders, 78, with Biden currently ahead thanks to his dramatic Super Tuesday come back.
President Trump, who called her ‘very selfish,’ for staying the race, claiming she was doing so to keep Sanders from winning the nomination, slammed her exiting the contest ‘THREE DAYS TOO LATE.’
‘Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren, who was going nowhere except into Mini Mike’s head, just dropped out of the Democrat Primary…THREE DAYS TOO LATE. She cost Crazy Bernie, at least, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Texas. Probably cost him the nomination! Came in third in Mass,’ he wrote on Twitter.
Warren, universal press release who led the field early on, saw her star slowly fade as Pete Buttigieg won Iowa, Sanders took New Hampshire and Biden won South Carolina.
Out at last: Elizabeth Warren took 36 hours to bow to the inevitable, finally quitting the presidential race Thursday morning after a disastrous Super Tuesday
Boost? Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are now clear to go against each other – and both were in talks with Elizabeth Warren for her endorsement
She has reportedly been in talks with both Biden and Sanders about her endorsement, a value that will could make her the kingmaker in the Democratic primary, particularly if she bestows it on the former vice president.
Biden has already sealed endorsements from Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, and Mike Bloomberg.
Warren, a favorite of the progressives, was never able to capture the liberal left like Sanders did.
Her blessing to him would rally the left flank of the party to his side and boost his battle against Biden.
Sanders said on Wednesday he had spoken to Warren that day and she was assessing her campaign.
‘It is important, I think, for all of us… to respect the time and the space that she needs to make her decision,’ he said.
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Warren also spoke with Biden on Wednesday.
President Trump had attacked Warren as ‘selfish’ for not dropping out of the race, universal press release claiming her presence was a move by the party to keep Sanders from becoming the nominee since they both appeal to the same voting block.
He accused her of playing a spoiler role in the primary process.
‘So Elizabeth Warren was the single biggest factor universal PR in that election last night and it would have been a very different thing and not in a positive way for her,’ Trump said at the White House Wednesday.
Trump had made her the subject of attacks as ‘Pocahontas’ after her botched defense of claims she had Native American heritage, which ended in a DNA test showing that she was likely to be 1,064th Indian.
Tulsi Gabbard remains the lone female candidate in the primary race but her campaign has faltered. She has not appeared on the debate stage in months, barely makes the polls, and only netted a single delegate on Super Tuesday – from American Samoa where she was born.
Warren was the last surviving woman among the major candidates however, staying in long past Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, and Klobuchar.
Last woman running: Tulsi Gabbard, the Hawaii congresswoman, remains in the race but has garnered just one delegate – from American Samoa
President Trump repeatedly attacked Elizabeth Warren as ‘Pocahontas,’ based on her claim of Native American DNA, press release which a test proved false
Her departure will likely raise questions about how Democrats – who brag about their diversity – came down to having two white males as their final contenders for the nomination.
Warren did, in effect, drive Mike Bloomberg from the race.
She decimated him on the debate stage, demanding to know why he wouldn’t release women from the disclosures they signed after complaints about a hostile work environment.
She demanded to know how many women and PR why he wouldn’t release them, leaving Bloomberg fumbling for an answer and damaging his campaign prospects.
Bloomberg exited the race on Wednesday after pouring nearly a billion dollars in trying to sweep the Super Tuesday contests – only to win American Samoa. He also endorsed Biden.
Warren was known for her policy proposals – ‘I have a plan for that’ was practically her campaign slogan – and her long lines of supporters wanting selfies.
But her many proposals also became part of her down fall. Her rivals pummeled her on her Medicare for All universal health care plan, demanding to how she would pay for it and why people who liked their insurance should give it up.