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Friday 16 august 2019

Hickenlooper ends White House

bid, mulls Senate run in 2020

of the most vulnerable Sen- campaigns, setting up a enlooper's own admission,
ate Republicans in 2020. competitive primary even he was a mediocre de-
In a video message , Hick- before Hickenlooper, 67, bater and an erratic pub-
enlooper said he had makes a decision. lic speaker. In the end, he
heard from many in his Hickenlooper became a could not scrape together
state urging him to enter leading figure in Colorado enough money for many
the Senate race. with his quirky, consensus- of his trademark quirky
"They remind me how much driven and unscripted ap- ads, only launching one
is at stake for our country. proach to politics. He once in which avid beer drink-
Democratic presidential candidate former Colorado Gov. John
Hickenlooper speaks at the Presidential Gun Sense Forum, Sat- And our state," he said. "I in- jumped out of a plane to ers toast Hickenlooper by
urday, Aug. 10, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. tend to give that some seri- promote a ballot measure comparing him to favor-
Associated Press ous thought." to increase state spending, ite brews. He became the
Colorado's shift to the left and he won two statewide second Democrat to end a
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI ed his longshot bid for the could put Sen. Cory Gard- elections during years of presidential bid after Rep.
DENVER (AP) — Former Democratic presidential ner's seat in jeopardy for Re- Republican waves. He also Eric Swalwell pulled out of
Colorado Gov. John Hick- nomination and said he publicans, and at least 10 was Denver's mayor. the primary last month.
enlooper on Thursday end- may instead challenge one Democrats have launched He began his White House "While this campaign didn't
campaign in March, prom- have the outcome we
ising to unite the country. In- were hoping for, every mo-
stead, he quickly became ment has been worthwhile,"
a political punch line. Hickenlooper tweeted on
Founding a series of brew- Thursday.
pubs made Hickenlooper a Republicans seized on the
multimillionaire. But shortly meltdown of Hickenloop-
before taking his first trip to er's campaign as evidence
Iowa as a presidential can- the Democratic Party has
didate, he balked on na- become too radical. "A
tional television at calling two-term governor of a
himself a capitalist. Then, swing state and #2020
at a CNN town hall, he re- presidential #Democrat
counted how he once took candidate who was booed
his mother to see a porno- for warning against his par-
graphic movie. ty's embrace of socialist
With the campaign strug- policies has been forced
gling to raise money, his out of the race," tweeted
staff urged Hickenlooper to Kellyanne Conway, a top
instead challenge Gardner. Trump aide.
But Hickenlooper stayed in But Hickenlooper's own sup-
and hired another group of porters attributed his failure
aides in a last-ditch effort to partly to the persistence of
turn around his campaign. former Vice President Joe
He positioned himself as a Biden's strong position in the
common-sense candidate Democratic primary field.
who couldn't be labeled a Hickenlooper launched his
"socialist" by Republicans. presidential bid presuming
But Hickenlooper couldn't that the 76-year-old Biden
make his voice heard in the would stumble, and the
crowded Democratic field electorate would be hun-
of about two dozen candi- gry for another centrist with
dates. a track record of winning
It didn't help that, by Hick- white moderates.q