{"id":2720,"date":"2008-01-09T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/01\/richardson-drops-presidential-bid-ap-reports\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T18:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T00:25:00","slug":"richardson-drops-presidential-bid-ap-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/01\/richardson-drops-presidential-bid-ap-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson drops presidential bid, AP reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gov. Bill Richardson<\/a> has decided to drop his presidential bid, the Associated Press<\/a> is reporting. <\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> plans to make a formal announcement on Thursday, the news service reported, but reached the decision today to immediately end his campaign after securing only 5 percent of the vote in Tuesday\u2019s New Hampshire Primary and 2 percent in last week\u2019s Iowa Caucus.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s campaign was running out of money and losing supporters. Campaign volunteer Ken Camp told me earlier today he was staying on, flying to Nevada<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> this weekend at his own expense to campaign for the governor, but that others \u201chave jumped ship in the past 12-14 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Update, 5:55 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Richardson Deputy Campaign Manager Amanda Cooper told The Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a> that the governor hasn\u2019t dropped out.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo he hasn\u2019t,\u201d she said and, when asked whether he planned to drop out, she said, \u201cI haven\u2019t had a discussion about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been unable to reach Cooper and other Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> campaign officials for comment.<\/p>\n

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Update, 6:15 p.m.<\/p>\n

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A source identified as \u201ca Democratic strategist close to Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>\u2019s campaign\u201d told CNN<\/a> that the governor has decided to drop out.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe numbers are the reason \u2013 not enough votes and not enough money,\u201d a Democratic strategist close to Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>\u2019s campaign told CNN. However, \u201cHe enjoyed it and believes he made a contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gov. Bill Richardson has decided to drop his presidential bid, the Associated Press is reporting. Richardson plans to make a formal announcement on Thursday, the news service reported, but reached the decision today to immediately end his campaign after securing only 5 percent of the vote in Tuesday\u2019s New Hampshire Primary and 2 percent in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}