California Senator Kamala Harris announced on Tuesday (December 2nd) that she was retiring from the Democratic primary with a view to the November presidential election in the United States.
"I took stock and considered the situation from all angles to arrive in recent days to one of the most difficult decisions of my life," she wrote in an email addressed to her supporters.
"My campaign simply does not have the financial resources to continue," she continues. "I'm not a billionaire, I can not finance my own campaign."
Stagnation in the polls
The 55-year-old former California prosecutor entered the race at the end of January to win the Democratic nomination and challenge Republican Donald Trump in the November 2020 presidential election.
After a very noticeable start, she had fallen back and stagnated in the polls behind the leading pack. It had been relegated to the sixth place (3.4% according to the average RealClearPolitics) by billionaire Michael Bloomberg. This is one of the biggest personalities to abandon the Democratic primary, which now has 15 candidates in the running.
Kamala Harris grew up in Oakland, California, a progressive California in the 1960s, proud of the civil rights struggle of her immigrant parents: a Jamaican father, a professor of economics, and an Indian mother who died today, a researcher specializing in cancer. breast.
Since the beginning of her career, she has accumulated pioneering titles. After two stints as a prosecutor in San Francisco (2004-2011), she was twice elected California attorney (2011-2017), becoming the first woman, but also the first black person, to head the judicial services of the most populous state in the country.
Then, in January 2017, she was sworn in the Senate in Washington, registering as the first woman from South Asia and only the second black senator in American history.
With AFP and Reuters