Buttigieg and Klobuchar Drop Out and Endorse Biden
Reuters
We ran the numbers: There are 3565 news articles covering this topic. 62% (2202) are left leaning, 32% (1136) center, 6% (227) right leaning.
Former mayor of South Bend, Ind. Pete Buttigieg officially suspended his campaign on Sunday evening. Senator Amy Klobuchar withdrew also from the Democratic presidential race on Monday afternoon. While left-leaning articles highlight Buttigieg and Klobuchar’s support for Biden, right-leaning articles highlight that Buttigieg’s suspension of his bid will not be the end of his political career.
A left-leaning article by The New York Times highlights that on Monday, Buttigieg and Klobuchar put their support behind former Vice President Joe Biden, giving him a boost ahead of Super Tuesday primaries as he tests his strength against Senator Bernie Sanders. Buttigieg praised Biden, stating that he would “restore the soul” of the nation as president, while Biden responded with the highest compliment in his personal vocabulary by comparing Buttigieg to his own son, Beau, who passed away in 2015.
NPR published a centrist article highlighting that Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten, gave an emotional speech before Buttigieg announced his campaign suspension at a rally in South Bend. In his remarks, Chasten emphasized the significance of Buttigieg being the first openly gay candidate to become a leading presidential candidate. Before running for president, Buttigieg was perceived as a little-known long shot, but quickly emerged among the front-runners as a graduate of Harvard and Oxford and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan.
Fox News published a right-leaning article reporting that Trump 2020 campaign adviser Lara Trump suggested that it won’t be likely that Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s suspension of his presidential bid won’t be the end of his political career. The article also reports that Trump said that while officials with the president’s re-election campaign were never “too concerned with Pete Buttigieg,” they “wish him well.”