Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris of California is ending her presidential run today.
Harris informed her staff on a phone call, less than an hour after it was reported that the campaign canceled a big-money New York City fundraiser scheduled for Tuesday evening, The Daily Beast reported.
“My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue,” Harris wrote in the email to supporters.
Harris entered the race with some of the greatest fanfare of all candidates, Atlantic writer Edward-Isaac Dovere tweeted. She also had “the highest expectations on her, and the biggest entry into the race with 22,000 people at her rally in Oakland at the end of January – but had struggled with internal fighting and money that had almost completely dried up recently.”
It also means that there may be no Black candidates or people of color on stage during the December debate. Harris qualified for it, but so far, Sen. Cory Booker, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and entrepreneur Andrew Yang have not.
