March 05, 2020 08:21 AM UTC

Elizabeth Warren Withdraws From Prez Race

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• by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE #2: We completely agree:

This got me. I like when candidates and elected officials show emotion. It’s not a sign of weakness and shouldn’t be viewed as such. https://t.co/f33xPetI6o

— Justin Barasky (@JustinBarasky) March 5, 2020

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UPDATE:

“Not today,” replies @ewarren when asked if she’ll endorse today either @BernieSanders or @JoeBiden. pic.twitter.com/UBvTO1FgzG

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) March 5, 2020

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New York Times reporting, and after Super Tuesday it was inevitable:

Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts plans to drop out of the presidential race on Thursday and will inform her staff of her plans later this morning, according to a person close to her, ending a run defined by an avalanche of policy plans that aimed to pull the Democratic Party to the left and appealed to enough voters to make her briefly a front-runner last fall, but that proved unable to translate excitement from elite progressives into backing from the party’s more working-class and diverse base.

Though her support had eroded by Super Tuesday, in her final weeks as a candidate she effectively drove the centrist billionaire, former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, out of the race with debate performances that flashed her evident skills and political potential.

No word yet on an endorsement from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, but her choice now of whether to stand by her close(r) ideological ally Sen. Bernie Sanders or the rapidly-coalescing support for Sen. Joe Biden as a more electable alternative could factor more than her performance in any of the heretofore primaries. Stay tuned for updates.