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Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., announced Monday that she would end her presidential bid and endorse Joe Biden, CNN reported. Klobuchar is flying to Dallas to join the former vice president at a rally, where she will formally suspend her campaign and give her endorsement on the eve of Super Tuesday.
Klobuchar’s decision and endorsement came one day after Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, suspended his campaign. The two moderate candidates traded aggressive criticisms of each other across several televised debates before uniting behind Biden: Klobuchar attacked Buttigieg’s lack of political experience at the national level, while he scrutinized her voting record in the Senate, more specifically her support for President Donald Trump’s nominee to run U.S. Customs and Border Protection office.
This news organization endorsed the Minnesota Senator in February. But following Klobuchar and Buttigieg’s suspensions, columnist Dan Borenstein wrote Monday that Biden was now “the stronger candidate for Democrats seeking to cast strategic vote to stop Sanders.”
As California and 13 other states head to polling stations on Super Tuesday, Borenstein reframed the decision for Golden State voters given the new developments: “The bottom line for California voters is that they face a unique situation with a large group of moderate candidates who are likely to split the centrist vote so much that none of them emerge with a meaningful number of delegates. Sanders could capture about a third of the California primary vote and almost all the delegates.”
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