Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand is dropping out of the presidential race as a campaign that once looked poised to ride strong #MeToo credentials to formidability was instead plagued by low polling and major fundraising struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 52-year-old New York Senator said on Wednesday that she was suspending her campaign. That comes after failing to meet minimum thresholds for required numbers of donors and polling to qualify for the September Democratic debate in Houston.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gillibrand topped an incumbent Republican in a conservative part of upstate New York to get to the US House in 2007, and was appointed to the Senate two years later, filling the seat vacated by Hillary Clinton, who was tapped to be US secretary of state. Gillibrand later easily retained the seat during a 2010 special election, as well as in 2012 and 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She stood out in the crowded field by becoming the first Democratic presidential hopeful to declare that she\u2019d only appoint judges to the Supreme Court who consider the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide settled law, though most of her competitors quickly followed suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After forming an exploratory committee in January and formally entering the race by calling President Donald Trump a \u201ccoward\u201d in a March speech delivered near the New York City skyscraper bearing his name, Gillibrand began with USD 10.5-plus million left over from her 2018 Senate campaign in her presidential campaign account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That seemed like more than enough resources for the long haul. But Gillibrand was the first Senate Democrat in December 2017 to call for Minnesota Sen. Al Franken\u2019s resignation amid numerous allegations of sexual misconduct, and she has said for months that that alienated donors and some voters in his neighboring, make-or-break Iowa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of her Senate colleagues seeking the Democratic presidential nomination including Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Kamala Harris of California and Bernie Sanders of Vermont followed her lead in calling for Franken to step down before he quit in January 2018. But Gillibrand has continually faced more questions than others about being too quick to condemn him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking in Manhattan in July, Gillibrand said she didn\u2019t regret urging Franken\u2019s resignation but argued that female senators were being blamed more than their male colleagues for a decision that Franken himself ultimately made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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