"Washington Governor Jay Inslee, who made fighting climate change the central theme of his presidential campaign, announced Wednesday night that he is ending his bid for the 2020 Democratic nomination. Inslee announced his decision on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," admitting it's become clear that he won't win.
Inslee has kept open the option of running for a third gubernatorial term throughout his presidential campaign, but didn't immediately say what his political plans were.
"This is sort of the bookends of my campaign," Inslee said on MSNBC. "We started seeing that climate change had to be the number one job of the United States. I felt very good saying that the first days of my campaign. I feel very good saying that now. And the reason is this is has just become more urgent — a billion tons of ice melted in Greenland the other day. But we also have had so many people that I have met who are inspiring, who want us to act, who have helped me. We have had 130,000 people help me in this campaign.""
CBS News had the story August 21, 2019.
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