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  • I announced this morning that I am suspending my campaign for president.

  • Um, I say this with a deep sense of gratitude for every single person who got in this fight.

  • Every single person who tried on a new idea.

  • Every single person just moved a little in their notion off what a president of the United States should look like.

  • Um, I will not be running for president in 2020 but I guarantee I will stay in the fight for the hard working folks across this country have gotten short into the stick over and over.

  • That's been the fight of my life, and it will continue to be so you don't know.

  • Well, let's take a deep breath and spend a little time on that.

  • We don't have to decide that.

  • I want you to the women and girls who feel like we're left with two white men.

  • I know one of the hardest parts of this.

  • It is all those people and all those little girls.

  • We're gonna have to wait four more years.

  • That's gonna be hard way be making an endorsement.

  • Today.

  • We know that you spoke with Joe Biden and burden, not today.

  • not today.

  • I know space around this and want to take a little time to think a little more.

  • I've been I've been spending a lot of time right now on the question of suspending and also making sure that this works is best we can for our staff or team for our volunteers started becoming.

  • But just not right now I know that your campaign manager, Roger, allow the hot set on the staff call today that he had no regrets.

  • Do you feel the same way?

  • Oh, I do.

  • I have no regrets at all.

  • This is been in honor of a lifetime.

  • 10 years ago, I was teaching a few blocks from here and talking about what was broken in America and ideas for how to fix it and pretty much nobody wanted to hear it.

  • And I've had a chance to get out there and talk with millions of people and we have ideas.

  • Now that we talk about that we just weren't talking about even a year ago.

  • A two cent wealth tax and universal child care that could be really we could make it happen and canceling student loan debt for 43 million Americans and raising Social Security payments.

  • Does a wife changing events for people and we could actually do this.

  • So I'm delighted to have been Venner and honored to have had this.

  • You know, I was told at the beginning of this whole undertaking that there are two lanes, Ah, progressive way that Bernie Sanders is the incumbent for and a moderate lane that Joe Biden is the incumbent for.

  • And there's no room for anyone else in this.

  • I thought that wasn't right, but evidently I was wrong.

  • As I said, I think that I was told when I first got into this there are two lanes and I thought it was possible that that wasn't the case, that there was more room and more room to run another kind.

  • But that wasn't e.

  • You know, I am deeply grateful to the people with Massachusetts.

  • Look back in 2012 they took a chance on someone who had never run for public office before They ousted a very popular incumbent Republican senator to give me a chance to stand up on a bigger platform and fight for their families, and I am deeply grateful for that.

  • They returned me to the Senate in 2018.

  • I'm deeply grateful for that.

  • They're the reason I'm in this fight, and they're the reason I could I am able to stand here today.

  • T o D.

  • Are you passionate about gender?

  • So, um, it waas all.

  • I still have that voting, but I looked down and I saw my name on the ballot, and I thought, Well, kiddo, you're not in Oklahoma anymore.

  • Uh, that it really was a moment of thinking about call my mother and dad if they were still here, would feel about this.

  • Um, I had gotten long meal from my nephew and how proud his death my brother is and how they were all had their plans to vote in a net.

  • Other people, it is these long times for that moment standing in the booth.

  • I missed my mom and my dad, um, gender in this race, you know, that is the trap question for everyone.

  • Uh, if you say Yeah, there was sexism in this race.

  • Everyone says whiner.

  • And if you say no, there was no sexism about a Brazilian.

  • Women think.

  • What planet do you live on?

  • Um, I promise you this.

  • I will have a lot more to say on your supporters right now looking for you know, you're not endorsing anybody.

  • Let's let's take a deep breath and think about this for a little bit longer before we also two days for you multiple days to make this decision.

  • What were you thinking about?

  • What informed what was the last?

  • You know, a big part of it is to think about all the people who turned their lives upside down to be a part of this campaign.

  • All of the staffers who moved and worked long hours gave up jobs to be here, took leaves from school to think about what works for them.

  • But this isn't just about me.

  • This is a whole lot of people who were a big part of this and also our volunteers, uh, to try to think through for all those people who already have invested so many hours and so much of their heart in the phone calls in the door knocks and the coming to the office and help clean things up and keep it all going and think about all those pinky promises.

  • You know, I take those pumps is serious.

  • So Those were the things I needed to think for him and how we make all those pieces work.

  • At least it's best we can for everyone and one last thing.

  • It's about all the people, her affected style.

  • The issues have talked about whether they got involved in my fire for someone else's.

  • Why don't even not at all But Harper, we talk about this.

  • You're still is a trillion and 1/2 dollars of student loan debt outstanding.

  • There are still tens of millions of people across this country, the poem 11 bad medical diagnosis and they're upside down financially.

  • There are still moments in Daddy's all across this country who can finish their education can take on jobs because they can't find access to decent child and that they can afford.

  • And I had to think a lot about where is the best place for me to go to keep fighting those fights because those problems don't disappear when I stand here in front of you.

  • Those problems go on, Uh, and my job is to keep fighting and to fight this smartly and effectively.

  • Hi, everyone.

  • George Stephanopoulos here.

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I announced this morning that I am suspending my campaign for president.

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