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January 24, 2008, 5:17 pm
Kucinich To Drop Out of Presidential Race
By Michael Falcone
Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich said today that he is ending his long-shot presidential bid, thinning the Democratic presidential field to four candidates.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/24/kucinich-to-drop-out-of-presidential-race/?hpIn an interview with the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Mr. Kucinich said he plans to hold a news conference Friday afternoon where he will announce that he is “transitioning out of the presidential campaign.”
In a video posted on the Plain Dealer’s Web site, Mr. Kucinich said that he had not shared the news with anybody except the newspaper and his wife, Elizabeth.
Mr. Kucinich, who is serving his sixth term in Congress from Ohio’s 10th Congressional District, is up for re-election in 2008.
He also ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, but stayed in the race until just before the party’s national convention when he dropped out and endorsed Senator John Kerry.
Mr. Kucinich told the Plain Dealer today that he would not endorse another Democrat in the primary.
In recent weeks, Mr. Kucinich has been sidelined — excluded from the Democrats’ debates in New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. With extremely low support in the polls, the debates were his main venue for getting his message out.
He took to the floor yesterday to jump-start his impeachment drive; this time he promised to introduce articles of impeachment against President Bush rather than Vice President Cheney, who was his earlier target.
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