China News Service, Washington, April 8 (Reporter Shahan Ting) US Democratic presidential candidate and Federal Senator Sanders from Vermont announced on the 8th local time that he hoped to withdraw from the 2020 US presidential election due to his hopeless victory.
Sanders issued a withdrawal statement at his Vermont home that day. Sanders said it was a "difficult and painful" decision, but the current situation is that it is more than 300 votes behind Biden, and there is little chance of winning. "Although my campaign won ideological victories and won the support of young people and working people, the fact is that I cannot win the nomination of candidates, so I decided to terminate the campaign."
Sanders' resignation also made former US Vice President Biden the only remaining Democratic presidential candidate, which will lock in the Democratic nominations. Biden issued a statement after Sanders retired saying that Sanders "was a strong voice for the realization of a fairer and more just America," and his influence will continue. Biden also called on Sanders' supporters to support him.
As a representative of the "radical" party in the Democratic Party, the 78-year-old Sanders has always advocated policies such as free medical care for all people, free education in public universities, and a minimum income of $ 15 per hour. stand by.
In the early stage of the presidential election, Sanders was eye-catching. The two states that won the first vote in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada became the "leaders" in the camp of Democratic presidential candidates. But with the "moderate" presidential candidates Buttigieg and Klobucher and others have withdrawn and turned to support Biden, Biden returned strongly on "Super Tuesday" and surpassed Sanders in the number of votes. In the subsequent "Little Super Tuesday" contest, Sanders failed to win the key state of Michigan, after which the gap with Biden gradually widened.
Due to the outbreak of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic in the United States in mid-March, many states have postponed the primary election vote, and large campaign rallies have also been cancelled. After many discussions with campaign advisers, Sanders said that although some people still think he should stick to the last moment, he believes that as the current epidemic rages, as a senator, he has a lot of important work to do In order to protect the American people, it is not time to disperse our energy and insist on elections without a chance of winning.
Sanders also said that although his campaign is over, he will always "fight for political ideals" for himself. "Medical insurance should be a basic citizen's right and not a work benefit. This is more prominent in the current epidemic situation." He also called on Democrats to unite, "Only unity can defeat the current US President Trump, the most dangerous in American history. president".
Sanders was born in New York City in 1941 and graduated from the University of Chicago. He served as the Federal Representative from Vermont from 1991 to 2007 and has served as the Federal Senator from 2007 to the present. Sanders participated in the presidential election twice in 2016 and 2020. (Finish)