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| 'I’m not the one to accept donations in a race I can't win': Yang quits presidential bid as polls close in New Hampshire | |
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| Entrepreneur Andrew Yang has bowed out of the Democratic presidential race after early results suggested he failed to win delegates in the New Hampshire primary. | Entrepreneur Andrew Yang has bowed out of the Democratic presidential race after early results suggested he failed to win delegates in the New Hampshire primary. |
| As early results started pouring in from the New Hampshire primaries on Tuesday night, the Democratic field has lost yet another hopeful as sources close to the Yang campaign have confirmed that the entrepreneur-turned-politician would be ending his presidential bid. | As early results started pouring in from the New Hampshire primaries on Tuesday night, the Democratic field has lost yet another hopeful as sources close to the Yang campaign have confirmed that the entrepreneur-turned-politician would be ending his presidential bid. |
| Commenting on his decision to pull the plug on his campaign, Yang said that he does not want to continue taking money from his supporters knowing that he will not pull it through. | |
| “I am so proud of this campaign. Thank you to everyone who got us here,” he tweeted. | “I am so proud of this campaign. Thank you to everyone who got us here,” he tweeted. |
| Fellow Democratic presidential contender, Amy Klobuchar, who surged in the polls ahead of the New Hampshire primary, was one of the first to lament Yang’s move, saying that she would “miss him” on the campaign trail. | |
| “By thinking outside of the box, you will have a lasting mark in bringing new voters to the ballot box in 2020.” | |
| It has been projected that Yang would gain less than 5 percent of the vote in the Tuesday’s contest – far less than a minimum of 15 percent required to receive any delegates. | |
| Yang did not endorse any of the remaining candidates immediately after he called it a day, but said that he would support any Democratic nominee for president. | |
| Yang was not the only one to throw in the towel on Tuesday, with Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado also ending his bid. Meanwhile, Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard, who is earning some 3 percent of the vote according to the early projections, vowed to stay in the race at least until South Carolina primary on February 29. | |
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