BREAKING: Sen. Warren is suspending her campaign for president, a source familiar with the matter tells NBCNews; she will be announcing the decision on a call with her campaign staff at 11 a.m. ET.
Warren was pummeled on her"Medicare for All" plan by rivals like Pete Buttigieg, who started to peel away white college graduates, a group that formed the core of her base. She responded by releasing a series of detailed financing mechanisms, followed by a plan to transition onto Medicare for All in the third year of her presidency, moving first to establish a “public option” in the first year.
Meanwhile the crowded field of moderates, most notably the staying power of Joe Biden, made it harder for her to grow her support among the mainstream Democrats who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016. Questions about"electability" dogged her throughout the fall as many voters, haunted by the last presidential election, fretted that the U.S. wouldn't elect a woman.
It was a quiet, even subconscious fear, thrust into the spotlight right before the Iowa caucuses when news broke of a late 2018 meeting between Warren and Sanders, during which Warren said Sandershe didn’t think a woman could beat President Donald Trump. The story led to a January debate stage confrontation, with Sanders denying he said it and Warren sticking by her re-telling of the story. The two later tried to quell the tensions — not wanting to alienate their progressive supporters.
Trump nourished this fear by repeatedly attacking her as “Pocahontas,” a reference to her decades-long claim of Native American ancestry and her 2018 decision to take a DNA test to prove it. Ultimately, it was perhaps the crowded field that hurt her most. National and early state surveys of Democrats heading into the new year showed her leading all rivals on"second choice" preferences. Her campaign sought to turn that into a positive by debuting a new message of unity, pitching her as the candidate best-positioned to bridge the divides between the party's left and moderate wings.
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