• Home
  • Mail
  • News
  • Finance
  • Sports
  • Entertainment
  • Search
  • Mobile
  • More
Yahoo
    • Skip to Navigation
    • Skip to Main Content
    • Skip to Related Content
    • Mail
    Advertisement

    Kamala Harris Dropping Out Of Presidential Race

    Amanda Terkel
    HuffPostDecember 3, 2019
    Reblog
    Share
    Tweet
    Share
    Kamala Harris Dropping Out Of Presidential Race

    Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) is dropping her presidential bid. She informed her staff on Tuesday.

    Harris held a call with her team in Iowa on Tuesday, saying that she had made the decision because of financial struggles experienced by the campaign.

    “I don’t think anyone on my team was expecting this,” said one staffer, who said they were completely shocked by the news. 

    Harris will be going to New York City and Baltimore to inform staff there, and she intends to travel to the four early states where she has a campaign presence to be with her team there as well this week.

    On Tuesday afternoon, Harris emailed her supporters that she was withdrawing from the presidential race: 

    My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue.

    I’m not a billionaire. I can’t fund my own campaign. And as the campaign has gone on, it’s become harder and harder to raise the money we need to compete.

    In good faith, I can’t tell you, my supporters and volunteers, that I have a path forward if I don’t believe I do.

    So, to you my supporters, it is with deep regret ― but also with deep gratitude ― that I am suspending my campaign today.

    The news came just as a super PAC reserved airtime in Iowa for an ad blitz, set to begin on Tuesday, meant to bolster the candidate. (It quickly cancelled the spots after Harris’ announcement.) Harris’ team had been upfront about its financial issues and had cut staff in New Hampshire in order to double down on the caucus state. 

    Presidential hopeful and former Vice President Joe Biden, speaking to reporters after a town hall in Iowa, said he was disappointed the California senator had been forced out of the contest. 

    “She’s a first-rate candidate and a real competitor and I have mixed emotions about it because she is really a solid, solid person and loaded with talent,” he said. 

    Harris entered the race as a top-tier candidate, drawing more than 20,000 people to a kickoff rally in Oakland. She faced immediate progressive scrutiny of her record as a prosecutor in California. Throughout the campaign, she struggled to weave together her progressive positioning as a senator and presidential candidate with the more traditional stances she held during her decades as a prosecutor.

    The high point of her campaign came during the first presidential debate, when she attacked Biden for his stance on desegregation efforts in the 1970s. She skyrocketed in the polls, but was unable to sustain her place in the field as the Biden campaign aggressively fought back and Harris struggled to explain her own views on mandatory busing. 

    As her poll numbers began to sink in the late summer and early fall, her campaign announced a renewed focus on Iowa, ditching a previous strategy of focusing on her delegate-rich home state of California and heavily African-American South Carolina. 

    Harris was spending far more money than she was bringing in, and according to The New York Times, she made the final decision to drop out after a financial audit showed she would have to go into debt in order to stay in the race. 

    Robillard reported from Mason City, Iowa. 

    Related Coverage

    Kamala Harris: 'I Take Full Responsibility' For Decisions I Made As A Prosecutor

    Kamala Harris Sheds Significant Portion Of Staff In New Hampshire

    Super PAC Swoops In With Ad Buy To Help Kamala Harris In Iowa

    Love HuffPost? Become a founding member of HuffPost Plus today.

    This article originally appeared on HuffPost.

    Reblog
    Share
    Tweet
    Share

    What to Read Next

    • 2020 election: Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris shares her views on current issues

      USA TODAY
    • Melania Trump Makes Her First Public Statement on Impeachment, but It's About Son Barron

      People
    • Why did the Kamala Harris campaign fail?

      Yahoo News 360
    • Elizabeth Warren Goes After Pete Buttigieg's Private Fundraisers

      HuffPost
    • Bride's Dad Stops Wedding So Stepdad Can Walk Down The Aisle Too

      HuffPost
    • Rachel Maddow Nails Hypocrisy Of GOP, Newt Gingrich's New Case Against Impeachment

      HuffPost
    • Donald Trump Declares War On Water-Saving Toilets And Twitter Is Flushed With Jokes

      HuffPost
    • Trump says the EPA is looking 'very strongly' at 'sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms' because people are flushing their toilets 10 to 15 times

      Business Insider
    • West Virginia government employees suspended after Nazi salute photo emerges

      Yahoo News Video
    • Senators Laugh Off Trump's Latest Explanation For His Call With Ukraine's Leader

      HuffPost
    • Buttigieg Shares Some Details About His McKinsey Work But Stays Mum On Clients

      HuffPost
    • Nancy Pelosi's Daughter Warns Donald Trump: 'Don't Mess With Nancy'

      HuffPost
    • Less than a year after abandoning HQ2 in New York City, Amazon says it's opening a new 1,500-employee office in NYC

      Business Insider
    • In warning to Netanyahu, House endorses 2-state solution

      Yahoo News Video
    • Keanu Reeves’ Girlfriend, Alexandra Grant, Reveals Why She Rocks Her Natural Gray Hair

      HuffPost
    • Why Your Ponytail Gives You A Headache

      HuffPost Life

    Nancy Pelosi made her case for articles of impeachment at a CNN town hall. Here are the 5 biggest takeaways.

    Oxnard: "Pelosi noted that impeachment proceedings will reinforce that, unlike a king, the president's word is not law" Then why is the party supporting candidates like Kamala Harris who stated that she was going to give Congress x amount of days to act on certain campaign promises of hers and if they didn't, she would use Executive Orders to do it anyway? That SURE sounds like 'ruling by decree' like a king or a dictator, but I guess since it's a DEMOCRAT dictator that's ok eh?

    Join the Conversation
    1 / 5

    8.7k

    • Nancy Pelosi Takes Donald Trump's Insult, Fires It Right Back At Him

      HuffPost
    • Another 1,000 truck drivers lost their jobs in November, and it's a chilling sign for the economy

      Business Insider
    • White House tells House Democrats it will not participate in Trump impeachment hearing

      Yahoo News Video
    • Tiffany Haddish Embraces Her Jewish Identity With A Bat Mitzvah Ceremony

      HuffPost
    • Ashley Graham's Stunning Vogue Cover Makes Her Feel Like A 'True Pregnant Goddess'

      HuffPost
    • An Artist Duct Taped A Banana To A Wall And Sold It For $120,000

      HuffPost
    • U.S. Democratic contender Sanders proposes $150 billion for 'high-speed internet for all'

      Reuters
    • Another 1,000 truck drivers lost their jobs in November, a chilling sign for the economy

      Yahoo News Video
    • White House Counsel Calls On House Democrats To End Impeachment 'Charade'

      HuffPost
    • These Illustrations Show What Love Is Really Like Behind Closed Doors

      HuffPost Life
    • I Got Inseminated In A Burger King Bathroom Just Off Route 57

      HuffPost
    • Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out for claiming Trump food stamp changes might have left her family 'starved'

      FOX News Videos
    • Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that Democrats have failed to seal the deal on impeachment

      Yahoo News Video
    • Why The Idea Of 'Sex Drive' Is A Myth

      HuffPost
    • Virginia Prison Under Fire For Strip-Searching 8-Year-Old Visiting Dad

      HuffPost
    • À Sydney, le ciel est devenu orange (et ce n'est pas un filtre Instagram)

      Le HuffPost