Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is the latest Democratic candidate to announce that she has ended her bid for the 2020 presidential race, becoming the seventh Democratic candidate to drop out of the 2020 presidential race.
“Today, I am ending my campaign for president. I am so proud of this team and all we’ve accomplished. But I think it’s important to know how you can best serve,” she wrote in a Twitter post on Aug. 28.
“To our supporters: Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Now, let’s go beat Donald Trump and win back the Senate.”
In a video accompanying her Twitter post, Gillibrand told her supporters: “I know this isn’t the result that we wanted. We wanted to win this race.”
“But it’s important to know when it’s not your time and to know how you can best serve your community and country,” she added.
President Donald Trump reacted to the announcement, writing on Twitter: “A sad day for the Democrats, Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of the Presidential Primary.”
“I’m glad they never found out that she was the one I was really afraid of!” he added.
“I will only nominate judges — including Supreme Court justices — who will commit to upholding Roe v. Wade as settled law and protect women’s reproductive rights,” she wrote.
“I can tell you, before President Trump gave his State of the Union, Fox News talked about infanticide. Infanticide doesn’t exist …” Gillibrand said before further criticizing the network and calling the debate surrounding abortion a “red herring.”