Beto O'Rourke drops out of the 2020 race

Beto O'Rourke was born to be somewhere else.

The failed Texas Senate candidate is now a failed presidential candidate too, announcing Friday he was dropping out of the 2020 race. "This campaign does not have the means to move forward successfully," O'Rourke said in a lengthy statement, saying that he would no longer serve this country "as a candidate or as the nominee."

From here, O'Rourke will continue to support the eventual Democratic nominee, mentioning how he'd gotten to know his fellow candidates on the trail and saying "we will be well served by any one of them." But this isn't necessarily the end of O'Rourke's political career, seeing as he said he's "confident I will see you down the road."

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The former Texas congressmember, once expected to be a frontrunner in the race, had sputtered since its beginnings. Despite finding a few moments of stardom in attacking President Trump, he'd especially tanked in recent polls, falling to the low single digits and never recovering. Yet his campaign didn't send out the warning cries like former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro or Sen. Cory Booker's (D-N.J.) did, and so his campaign departure came somewhat out of the blue.

Find O'Rourke's whole statement here.