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US 2020 Presidential Race: Sen Elizabeth Warren to Drop out

US 2020 Presidential Race: Sen Elizabeth Warren to Drop out
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By Staff, Agencies

United States Senator Elizabeth Warren is to drop out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, according to US media reports.

Once a frontrunner, Warren is calling it quits following a poor showing in several statewide votes this week.

Warren, a 70-year-old progressive senator from Massachusetts, will hold a call with her campaign staff Thursday and announce that she is suspending her bid for the party's presidential nomination, a source familiar with the plans told CNN.

The senator led some national polls last summer but she never managed to build a broad coalition to carry her through to success in the primaries, finishing behind fellow progressive Bernie Sanders and moderate Joe Biden in 14 states on Super Tuesday.

Warren's withdrawal makes the Democratic race effectively a two-man contest between Biden, the 77-year-old former vice president, and Sanders, the 78-year-old Vermont senator.

She finished third in her home state of Massachusetts behind Biden and Sanders on Tuesday.

Her decision to drop out comes one day after that of billionaire former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who quit on Wednesday after a disappointing Super Tuesday performance and endorsed Biden.

According to The New York Times, Warren does not plan to make an endorsement when she announces that she is quitting the race.

Sanders told reporters that he had spoken to Warren on Wednesday.

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