Pete Buttigieg to drop out of 2020 presidential race, page-24

President Trump on Sunday night tweeted that Pete Buttigieg dropping out of the presidential race signals the “beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play.”

“Pete Buttigieg is OUT,” Trump wrote following reports that the former South Bend, Indiana mayor decided to suspend his campaign.

“All of his SuperTuesday votes will go to Sleepy Joe Biden.”

Trump called Buttigieg’s decision, “Great timing.”

“This is the REAL beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play – NO NOMINATION, AGAIN!”

The president was alluding to 2016, when Sanders lost out on Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton.

Buttigieg, 38, plans to give a speech in his hometown formally suspending his campaign Sunday night, a campaign aide said.

His surprise decision followed his dismal performance Saturday in the South Carolina primary, where he came in a distant fourth place among Democrats with around 8 percent of the vote.

It also came two days before the “Super Tuesday” Democratic primaries, in which 1,357 delegates will be at stake in states including California, Texas, Virginia and North Carolina.

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