Bill Richardson Drops Out Without Endorsement; Edwards Still Lacks Arizona Office
Bill Richardson dropped out of the campaign today leaving a three way race between Clinton, Obama and Edwards. Today, we visited the national John Edwards campaign office in Durham, North Carolina. Our visit was pretty unsuccessful in getting an Edwards representative for our Saturday Presidential Forum. So we now expect to have representatives from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama at the forum and should have a lively debate.
Richardson Drops Out
Gov. Bill Richardson announced that it’s over for him. He dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination, after finishing fourth in New Hampshire earlier this week.
And he did it — as usual — with a sense of humor that has often rippled through the Democratic field and lightened the tensions of the feuding front-runners.
“It is with great pride understanding and acceptance that I am ending my campaign for president of the United States,” he said at first. And he added: “You know it’s been an exhilarating and humbling year, an experience I will treasure and never forget.”
Campaigning in the early states, like Iowa and New Hampshire, he said, “tested me in ways that I’ve never been tested. We had 200 debates – actually it was only 24 but it felt like 200 — and there I believe we made our case to the people.” Click here to read more from the New York Times.