New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg suspended his presidential campaign Wednesday and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was reassessing her candidacy, as the winnowing process in the Democrats’ 2020 nomination fight lurched forward after a consequential Super Tuesday.
Bloomberg quit the race just 101 days after he got in despite pouring more than $500 million of his personal fortune into his campaign. The massive investment netted him a single win in American Samoa.
Bloomberg became the third failed Democratic presidential contender in three days to endorse Joe Biden.
Biden won Minnesota, his seventh state on Super Tuesday. He also won Arkansas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, Massachusetts and Virginia as of 12:01 a.m.
The St. Thomas College Democrats club hosted a watch party in Woulfe Alumni Hall, where students watched CNN for Minnesota’s results. Minnesota’s polls closed at 8 p.m.
“We felt that both for the fact that Minnesota is voting today as well as this is the closest thing to a national primary, that this would be one that people might want to come out and watch and participate,” College Democrats Co-President Jack Joa said.
After two and a half years, me too Movement creator Tarana Burke says people have forgotten what the movement is about.
Burke spoke to students, staff and community members Tuesday night in O’Shaughnessy Educational Center auditorium about the movement she started 14 years ago for survivors to share stories of sexual assault and abuse, popularized through the #metoo hashtag in October to 2017. The event was sponsored by the Luann Dummer Center for Women as its annual Women’s History Month speaker.
The Supreme Court is taking up the first major abortion case of the Trump era, an election year look at a Louisiana dispute that could reveal how willing the more conservative court is to roll back abortion rights.
The outcome could have huge consequences at a time when several states have passed laws, being challenged in the courts, that would ban abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, as early as six weeks.
The justices on Wednesday are examining a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. A federal judge found that just one of Louisiana’s three abortion clinics would remain open if the law is allowed to take effect.
Samantha HoangLong can be reached at hoan1058@stthomas.edu.