WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris told supporters on Tuesday that she was ending her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
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“I’ve taken stock and looked at this from every angle, and over the last few days have come to one of the hardest decisions of my life,” she wrote in a note to supporters. “My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue.”
Harris launched her campaign in front of 20,000 people at a chilly, outdoor campaign launch in January. The first woman and first black attorney general and U.S. senator in California’s history, she was widely viewed as a candidate poised to excite the same segment of voters that sent Barack Obama to the White House.
It has been the honor of my life to be your candidate. We will keep up the fight. pic.twitter.com/RpZhx3PENl
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) December 3, 2019
She raised an impressive $12 million in the first three months of her campaign and quickly locked down major endorsements meant to show her dominance in her home state, which offers the biggest delegate haul in the Democratic primary contest.
But as the field grew, Harris’s fundraising remained flat; she was unable to attract the type of attention being showered on Pete Buttigieg by traditional donors or the grassroots firepower that drove tens of millions of dollars to Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
Harris suffered from what allies and critics viewed as an inconsistent message. Her slogan “for the people,” referenced her career as a prosecutor, a record the campaign struggled to pitch to the party’s most progressive voters.
Through the summer, she focused on pocketbook issues and her “3 a.m. agenda,” a message that never seemed to resonate with voters. By the fall, she had returned to her courtroom roots with the refrain that “justice is on the ballot,” both a cry for economic and social justice as well as her call that she could “prosecute the case” against a “criminal” president.
To my supporters, it is with deep regret—but also with deep gratitude—that I am suspending my campaign today.
But I want to be clear with you: I will keep fighting every day for what this campaign has been about. Justice for the People. All the people.https://t.co/92Hk7DHHbR
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) December 3, 2019
KKKamela is the 14th to quit, only 15 more to go
Another one bites the dust.
She never gained any traction. Don’t know much about her but thought she would get farther.
She’s better than Klobuchar especially with a Jewish husband
She has a prosecutor’s mind, one that should not be allowed in the presidency. I cringe every time she says the word “criminal”. This is a type of bias that should not be ignored.
The lack of support she received just goes to prove that America is an evil racist country that hates black females.
Can’t forget her arrogance during the Kavanaugh hearing. Good riddance crybaby.
The lack of support she received was because she pretended to be a black American oppressed woman when she comes from a rich Jamaican family who owned African slaves. And if you didn’t see the irony on that then maybe her hypocrisy office sending thousands of black American women and men to jail for smoking weed while she herself was smoking it and getting high as a kite.
It seems to me she is the racist self-hating black.
Camel’aah, the Gentlewoman of Hawaii really dun ye in. Yer a phony and a bad one at that.