The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News is a major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area, with over 400,000 daily subscribers. It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the Galveston Daily News, of Galveston, Texas. Today it has one of the 20 largest paid circulations in the United States. Throughout the 1990s and as recently as 2010, the paper has won numerous Pulitzer Prizes for reporting and photography, George Polk Awards for education reporting and regional reporting, and an Overseas Press Club award for photography. The company has its headquarters in Downtown Dallas.
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WASHINGTON -- Beto O’Rourke announced Friday that he is dropping out of the Democratic presidential race.
He announced the move in an email to supporters, with no warning.
“Though it is difficult to accept, it is clear to me now that this campaign does not have the means to move forward successfully,” he wrote. “My service to the country will not be as a candidate or as the nominee.”
Pulling the plug now, he wrote, is in the best interest of campaign staff and the party and its eventual nominee.
O’Rourke likely would not have scored an invitation to participate in the next televised debate, on Nov. 20 in Atlanta. He had chalked up only two of the four polls needed to qualify and with tepid support, hitting the threshold set by the party by the deadline, Nov. 13, was unlikely.
President Donald Trump, who has enjoyed using O’Rourke as a foil, taunted him on Twitter as he headed to Tupelo, Miss., for a rally Friday night.