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Julian Castro, the only latino in the democratic primary, he quit the presidential race The democrat Kamala Harris is withdrawing from the presidential race for 2020
“More billionaires than black people came to the debate of December, that’s a problem”, he said on Twitter few weeks ago the senator african-american guy from New Jersey Cory Booker after being unable to qualify for the last debate of the presidential candidates democrats 2019. This Monday the mayor of Newark announced that it is withdrawing from the presidential race, which began notable for its diversity, but now only has an african american-who entered the race in November, an asian-american, and a dozen white. Booker explained that his candidacy was not achieving to raise the funds “for a campaign that can win,” the November elections and that’s why he took the decision to step aside. This is the third poor democrat so far this year, leaving 12 candidates in the race to defeat the republican Donald Trump.
“Our campaign has gotten to the point that we need more money to expand and continue building a campaign that can win: money you don’t have, and money is harder to raise because I will not be in the next stage of debate and because the urgent issue of the impeachment (to Trump) will keep me in Washington,” said Booker in an e-mail addressed to their followers. The Senate will vote on the impeachment of Trump in the coming weeks, something that will take time campaign to the senators who aspire to the White House.
The choice of Booker arrives on the eve of the first democratic debate of the year hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register, which will take place in Des Moines, Iowa. Six candidates were able to classify: vice-president Joe Biden, Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, the senator of Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren, the mayor of South Bend Pete Buttigieg, the senator from Minnesota Amy Klobuchar and philanthropist Tom Stir. The debate in Iowa has a special relevance because it is the last meeting of the candidates before the February 3, celebrate the first big event of the democratic primary in that State. “It was a difficult decision to make, but I came to this race to win, and I always said that would not continue if you do not already have a path to victory,” wrote Booker, who was scoring less than 2% in the polls.
The 2020 began with bad news for the diversity in the spectrum of democratic candidates. The former secretary of Housing Julian Castro announced on 2 January that it was withdrawing. That he was the only candidate Latin of the race gave their support to senator Warren. For his part, Booker was limited to say that will give their vote to the democratic candidate that comes out elect. With the low of the senator from New Jersey, the list of candidates representing a minority is reduced to the congressman hindu Tulsi Gabbard, the entrepreneur asian-american Andrew Yang and the former governor of Massachusetts, the african-american Deval Patrick. The women, who also set a record at the start of the race for the candidacy as a democrat, suffered a poor few days ago when the spiritual guru Marianne Williamson, after months without news or classified in the debates, withdrew its candidacy, leaving just three women out of a total of 12 applicants.
