( Reuters) – Elizabeth Warren ended her presidential campaign on Thursday after concluding she had no practical path to the Democratic nomination, leaving a two-man fight between former Vice President Joe Biden and U.S Senator Bernie Sanders.
Warren, a liberal senator who won plaudits for her robust policy plans and focused her campaign on combating the corrupting influence of cash on politics, had actually ended up well behind the two front-runners on Tuesday in 14 mentions throughout the country, including her home state of Massachusetts.
Her exit ensures that what was when hailed as the most diverse field of prospects in U.S. history has narrowed to a race between 2 white, septuagenarian males for the right to face Republican President Donald Trump in November.
Warren, who still commands a faithful base of advocates, did not right away back either of her competitors, saying she would choose at a later time whether to do so. She has consulted with both front-runners because Tuesday’s votes.
Biden, a 77- year-old moderate, and Sanders, a 78- year-old liberal from Vermont, have become the standard-bearers for the two significant wings of the Democratic Celebration.
Outside her house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday, Warren spoke candidly about her failure to discover a happy medium in between the party’s dueling factions.
” I was informed when I initially entered this, there are 2 lanes,” she stated. “I believed it was possible that wasn’t the case, and there was more space to run a different kind of project. Obviously that wasn’t the case.”
The former insolvency law teacher, who was mostly responsible for developing the Consumer Financial Pro