Senator Cory Booker announced Monday that he is suspending his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
"I got in this race to win, and I've always said I wouldn't continue if there was no longer a path to victory," the New Jersey senator said in a statement. "Our campaign has reached the point where we need more money to scale up and continue building a campaign that can win — money we don't have, and money that is harder to raise because I won't be on the next debate stage and because the urgent business of impeachment will rightly be keeping me in Washington."
Booker had struggled to gain traction in recent polls and failed to qualify for Tuesday’s Democratic debate, the last before the Iowa caucuses.
Booker’s departure leaves only one remaining African-American candidate in the race, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.
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