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  • as a member of the Democratic leadership in the United States Senate, and it's a senator from the state of Vermont.

  • This is something that I intend to intensely be involved in over the next number of months and that will require require an enormous amount of work.

  • Which takes me to the state about presidential campaign.

  • I wish I could give you better news, but I think you know the truth.

  • And that is that We announced some 300 delegates behind Vice President Biden, and the path toward victory is virtually impossible.

  • So while we're winning the ideological battle on while we are winning the support of so many young people and working people throughout the country, I have concluded that this battle for the Democratic nomination will not be successful.

  • And so today I am announcing the suspension off my campaign.

  • Please know that I do not make this decision lightly.

  • In fact, it has been a very difficult and painful decision.

  • Over the past few weeks, Jane and I, in consultation with top staff and many of our prominent supporters, have made an honest assessment of the prospects for victory.

  • If I believed that we had a feasible path of nomination.

  • I would certainly continue the campaign, but it's just not there.

  • I know that there may be some in our movement who disagree with this decision who would like us to fight on to the last ballot cast at the Democratic convention.

  • I understand that position.

  • But as I see the crisis gripping the nation, exacerbated by a president unwilling or unable to provide any kind of credible leadership and the work that needs to be done to protect people in this most desperate hour, I cannot in good conscience continued about the campaign that cannot win and which would interfere with the important work required off all of us in this difficult hour.

  • But let me say this very emphatically.

  • As you well know, we have never been just a campaign.

  • We are a grassroots, multi racial, multi generational movement which has always believed that really change never comes from the top on down, but always from the bottom on off, we have taken on Wall Street, the insurance companies, the drug companies, the fossil fuel industry, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex and the greed of the entire corporate elite that struggle continues.

  • While this campaign is coming to an end, our movement is not.

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as a member of the Democratic leadership in the United States Senate, and it's a senator from the state of Vermont.

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