Pete Buttigieg is ending his race for the
Democratic presidential nomination, according to reports.
The move shook up the contest to pick a candidate to take on
Donald Trump in November’s
election and came two days before the crunch 14-state ‘Super Tuesday’ contests.
It paves the way for fellow moderate
Joe Biden, who won a big victory in South Carolina at the weekend, to usurp frontrunner Bernie Sanders.The then-mayor of South Bend, Indiana, formally announced his presidential bid in April last year, when he was virtually unknown on the national stage.Despite nearly tying with Bernie Sanders to win the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, Buttigieg fell behind in the more diverse Nevada caucuses, finishing with 14.3% of the vote compared to Sanders’ 46.8%.Buttigieg, 38, was the youngest candidate in the Democratic presidential primary race and the the first openly gay person to seek the party’s nomination. This is a breaking news story and will be updated. Follow HuffPost
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