Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who pitched herself as a moderate with Midwestern appeal and the political "grit" to beat President Donald Trump, ended her presidential bid Monday, her campaign said in a statement.
Klobuchar will endorse former Vice President Joe Biden at at rally tonight in Dallas, her campaign said.
Klobuchar enjoyed a brief boomlet after the New Hampshire primary, where a surprise third-place finish gave her a needed fundraising boon and fresh political momentum. Klobuchar said the New Hampshire results showed she could beat expectations and build a broad coalition, as she had in her Senate races.
"I defied expectations, and I won. And I have done it over and over again in the reddest of red districts and the bluest of blue districts,” she told supporters in New Hampshire.
But her "Klomentum" seemed to evaporate as quickly as it emerged.
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Just a few days after the New Hampshire primary, Klobuchar stumbled during an interview with Telemundo when asked if she could name the president of Mexico. "No," she responded, in a lapse that came back to haunt her during the pivotal Feb. 18 Democratic debate. Days after that, she finished sixth in the Nevada caucuses.
The Minnesota Democrat's exit from the race will be welcome news to the cluster of other candidates trying to claim the centrist mantle, including former Vice President Joe Biden. But it's not clear yet where Klobuchar's supporters will land.
Klobuchar invested most of her time and money in Iowa, where she finished in fifth place, and New Hampshire, where she snagged nearly 20 percent of the vote. The New Hampshire bounce was not enough to help her campaign scale-up for as the race moved to Nevada and South Carolina.
Klobuchar's rivals, including Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, were far better organized in those states. And they enjoyed broader support among Latino and African-American voters, two key constituencies she was unable to win over.
Klobuchar, 59, has served as the senior U.S. Senator from Minnesota since 2007, the state’s first female senator. Before that, she served as Hennepin County Attorney. She launched her campaign in the middle of a snowstorm on the Mississippi River shore.
"I don't come from money," Klobuchar said, as snow piled on the crowd. "But what I do have is this: I have grit. I have family. I have friends. I have neighbors. I have all of you who are willing to come out in the middle of the winter, all of you who took the time to watch us today from home, all of you who are willing to stand up and say people matter."
Klobuchar cast herself as the best alternative to liberals in the race, Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, touting her Midwestern roots and her ability to work across the aisle to get things done in the Senate.
"I'm someone that can win and beat Donald Trump," she said during the first primary debate last year. "I have won every place, every race, and every time. I have won in the reddest of districts, ones that Donald Trump won by over 20 points. I can win in states like Wisconsin and Iowa and in Michigan."
On some progressive policies, such as “Medicare for All” and access to free college, Klobuchar differed from her more progressive counterparts.
On the campaign trail, Klobuchar at times have to contend with reporting that dubbed her one of the “worst bosses” in Congress, a designation Politico gave her in 2018.
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The New York Times in 2019 reported multiple cases of her “unethical” conduct as an employer in February. Among the claims were that Klobuchar was known to “throw objects in frustration, including binders and phones, in the direction of aides.” In one notorious anecdote, Klobuchar reportedly ate her salad with a comb when an aide failed to bring her a fork.
“Yes, I can be tough, and yes, I can push people,” Klobuchar told reporters after initial allegations circulated. “I have high expectations for myself. I have high expectations for the people that work for me. But I have high expectations for this country.”
Contributing: Rebecca Morin
Joe Biden em 2020, durante sua campanha para presidência dos Estados Unidos.

No sábado, o ex-vice-presidente dos Estados Unidos, , venceu a eleição primária do Partido Democrata na Carolina do Sul. O  usa eleições primárias, juntamente com ''es'', para selecionar seu candidato para a .

Biden garantiu 39 dos 54 delegados da , com cerca de 48% dos votos, totalizando 54 delegados. O senador norte-americano de , , ficou em segundo lugar, com cerca de 20% dos votos, conquistando quinze delegados e totalizando 60.  ficou em terceiro, recebendo cerca de 11% dos votos.

A eleição primária da Carolina do Sul foi o quarto passo no ciclo eleitoral do Partido Democrata. Em , ''caucuses'' foram realizados em 3 de fevereiro e em , foi feita uma eleição em 11 de fevereiro.  realizou seus ''caucuses'' em 22 de fevereiro.

Depois das primárias da Carolina do Sul, Bernie Sanders teve o maior número de delegados, com 60, seguido por Biden, com 54. Em terceiro, , ex-prefeito de , , que tinha 26 delegados que ganhou em Iowa, New Hampshire e Nevada. Além disso, a senadora , de , tinha 8 delegados, e a senadora , de , tinha 7. São necessários pelo menos 1.991 delegados para garantir a indicação do partido.




+ Número de delegados



 

 Iowa 

 NewHampshire 

 Nevada 

 Carolinado Sul 

 Total



 Sanders 

 12 

 9 

 24 

 15 

 60



 Biden 

 6 

 

 9 

 39 

 54



 Buttigieg 

 14 

 9 

 3 

 

 26



 Warren 

 8 

 

 

 

 8



 Klobuchar 

 1 

 6 

 

 

 7



 Total 

 41 

 24 

 36 

 54 





Após a primária, Steyer desistiu da corrida presidencial. Ontem, Buttigieg seguiu o exemplo, também desistindo da corrida. A campanha da senadora Klobuchar disse que estava encerrando sua candidatura presidencial hoje.

De acordo com a Conferência Nacional de Legislaturas Estaduais, a próxima eleição primária para os Partidos Democrata e Republicano está marcada para amanhã, quando ambos os partidos deverão realizar mais de uma dúzia de eleições primárias.

Amanhã, terça-feira, é chamada de "super terça-feira" no contexto das , devido ao grande número de estados que realizam eleições primárias. Para o Partido Democrata, a terça-feira incluirá 14 estados, bem como o território da , representando um total de 1.357 delegados. Os estados programados para realizar eleições são , , , , , Massachusetts, Minnesota, , Oklahoma, , , , Vermont e .