Sen. Gillibrand ends presidential campaign

[mcar]

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Kirsten Gillibrand
✔
@SenGillibrand
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.

To our supporters: Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Now, let's go beat Donald Trump and win back the Senate.

[seaglass]

1. This makes me sad :-( n/t

[mcar]

2. Me too, seaglass

She has been a good Senator and a good Democrat. She got (unfairly, IMO) vilified for the Franken situation. Funny how the woman gets blamed.

[seaglass]

12. Agreed. n/t

[Hoyt]

3. Except for Franken controvery - which Warren also joined - I think Gillibrand was decent candidate.

[mcar]

4. Male senators joined it too

I have always found it, unsettling to say the least, that Gillibrand took the brunt of it.

She's a good Democrat and a good Senator for her state. I wish her well.

[Hoyt]

8. I agree. Franken's situation arose when we were trying to get Kavanaugh denied. If at any other

time, it likely would have blown over.

[mcar]

10. The timing sucked

Which is why it happened then, of course. I will never get why so many on the left scapegoated Gillibrand when many legislators called for his resignation.

"She started it!" Such a childish argument.

[LisaM]

14. I'm sad about this too, though I did "scapegoat" her over Franken.

It wasn't that others didn't join in. But she was the first to call for his resignation - rather than grant him due process.

Even at that, I can understand her position, which has been consistent, but I cannot understand how she could be trolled by Leeann Tweeden and InfoWars. I don't want a candidate that falls for that stuff.

[Hoyt]

15. If it had just been Tweeden, nothing would have happened. But 8 women

came forward accusing Franken, during the fight against Kavanaugh.

[LisaM]

18. The whole thing was a sorry mess.

I know people who go to the Minnesota State Fair and several of them posted pictures of Franken with his arm around them. The exact same pose! I guess I didn't see any "there" there, and I still think it was engineered by Infowars. They created an issue, and others fell for it. It happened when Franken was being so enormously effective at questioning Jeff Sessions. The right has used this playbook before.

[StevieM]

16. I think you meant to say Roy Moore.

Kavanaugh happened later, after Franken had already been gone for awhile.

[Hoyt]

17. You are right, hard to keep these creepy GOPers straight.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/policy-and-politics/2018/9/18/17870782/kavanaugh-al-franken

[George II]

5. I'm not surprised, it seemed to be just a matter of time. But I LOVE that last line in the message..

"Now, let's go beat Donald Trump and win back the Senate."

[mcar]

6. I do too

She's a good Democrat who won't let ego or disappointment get in the way.

[demmiblue]

7. Thank you, Senator Gillibrand.

It is the right thing to do.

[mcar]

9. It is

I hope other candidates see that too.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. The Democrat 2020

[mcar]

13. The Democrat 2020