The field of democratic presidential applicants has recently shrunk dramatically. Several moderates made room for Joe Biden. Now Bernie Sanders' last competitor is giving up on the left. The race is finally a men's duel.
Washington (AP) - Senator Elizabeth Warren gets out of the Democrats' race for the US presidential candidacy. Warren officially announced this on Thursday in a statement to her supporters and employees.
The common goal was not achieved, she admitted there. But the struggle for more justice in the country continues. With Warren's withdrawal, the party's primaries are now finally a duel between left-wing Senator Bernie Sanders and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden.
Warren had gotten into her party's race promisingly and had been leading national polls among Democratic presidential candidates for a long time. But in the first four primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina she performed poorly and also disappointed on "Super Tuesday" when voting in 14 states: she did not win a single state for herself and lost herself in her native Massachusetts.
Warren's exit plays into the hands of Sanders, who, like her, represents a clearly left-wing agenda and thus vies for the same following. Biden's direct rivals from the moderate part of the party - ex-mayor Pete Buttigieg, senator Amy Klobuchar and the difficult former New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg - had already said goodbye to the race and had voted for Biden as a presidential candidate. Now there is only one applicant in the left spectrum: Sanders. The party can therefore choose between a representative of the left and the moderate camp.
Formally, there are still three democratic presidential applicants after Warren's withdrawal: In addition to Biden and Sanders, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is also still in the race. But politically it doesn't matter. Originally, almost 30 applicants to the Democrats tried to run their party's presidential candidacy. However, they gradually got out, with the advance of the primaries becoming ever faster.
After Super Tuesday, the next area codes are scheduled for March 10 in the states of Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota and Washington. Another major voting day will follow on March 17, with primaries in Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Ohio. The primaries run until June. The nomination party days, in which the Democrats and the Republicans officially elect their presidential candidates, will take place in the summer. The Democrats meet in July, the Republicans in August.
US President Donald Trump runs for a second term in the actual election on November 3. His nomination is certain - he has no serious internal party competition with the Republicans as incumbent. He wrote on Twitter on Thursday that Warren should have retired earlier. Her wait had cost Sanders multiple victories in "Super Tuesday" countries.