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Democrat Gillibrand Drops Out of 2020 Presidential Race

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand is dropping out of the
   presidential race as a campaign that once looked poised to ride
   strong#MeToo credentials to formidability was instead plagued by low
   polling and major fundraising struggles.
   The 52-year-old New York senator said Wednesday that she was suspending
   her campaign. That cameafter failing to meet minimum thresholds for
   required numbers of donors and polling to qualify for the September
   Democratic debate in Houston.
   ``I know this isn't the result that we wanted. We wanted to win this
   race,'' she said in an online video. ``But it's important to know when
   it's not your time.''
   Gillibrand topped an incumbent Republican in a conservative part of
   upstate New York to get to the U.S. House in 2007, and was appointed to
   the Senate two years later, filling the seat vacated by Hillary
   Clinton, who was tapped to be U.S. secretary of state. Gillibrand later
   easily retained the seat during a 2010 special election, as well as in
   2012 and 2018.

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