Several years after an ill-fated bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, former Baltimore Mayor and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley announced today that he won’t be running for president again, after all.
In an op-ed published in the Des Moines Register—2020 primary season is already underway in Iowa, where the state’s caucuses open the race every general election cycle—O’Malley quickly acknowledged his 2016 campaign as a “long-shot” bid that “found its flame extinguished between a rock and an angry place in my own party.”
Instead, he said, Americans should back Beto O’Rourke, the Texas Democrat who recently lost a close Senate race against incumbent Republican Ted Cruz (and gave up his U.S. House seat in the process).
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