The former mayor concluded this weekend that his path had closed, before warning against Bernie Sanders' approach in his dropout speech.
Soon after midnight on Sunday morning, Pete Buttigieg convened his senior advisers on a conference call. Sitting in a car after flying to Georgia from his last rally in Raleigh, N.C., Buttigieg told them the campaign was over.
Following breakfast with former President Jimmy Carter in Plains, Ga., Buttigieg conceded to reporters Sunday morning that Biden’s victory in South Carolina was “convincing,” and 12 hours after that, Buttigieg had rerouted his campaign plane to South Bend, where he told supporters his path “has narrowed to a close.”
Meanwhile, Buttigieg’s exit delivers “the first break in the logjam in the center of the party,” said Ace Smith, a California-based strategist who worked on Kamala Harris’ presidential bid. “That, plus Steyer getting out, benefits Biden tremendously.” He was just two years clear of the constitutional age limit to become president. But Buttigieg burst out of obscurity on the strength of his charisma and sharp, viral answers to media questions in the opening months of the campaign.
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