Buttigieg ends run for presidency
‘‘Joe Biden not only knows me, he knows you,’’ she said.
On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and teargassed hundreds of voting-rights demonstrators trying to march from Selma to Montgomery, the capital. Only 25 at the time and years away from joining Congress, Lewis led the marchers and was among the injured. –AP
Pete Buttigieg, who rose from being a small-town Midwestern mayor to a barrier-breaking, toptier candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, is ending his campaign.
Three people with knowledge of Buttigieg’s decision told
The Associated Press he began informing campaign staff yesterday.
His campaign said Buttigieg, pictured, will speak today in South Bend, Indiana. The decision came just a day after one of Buttigieg’s leading rivals, former Vice President Joe Biden, scored a resounding victory in South Carolina that sparked new pressure on the party’s moderate wing to coalesce behind Biden.
Buttigieg had been critical of Biden, charging that the 77-yearold lifelong politician was out of step with today’s politics. But his criticism had shifted in recent days more toward front-runner Bernie Sanders.
Buttigieg, the first openly gay candidate to seriously contend for the presidency, tried to make the case that his party thrived when it embraced candidates who offered generational change. But the 38-year-old Afghanistan war veteran ended up being more successful at winning older voters.
–AP