Former Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke said Friday that he will drop out of the 2020 presidential race.
“Our campaign has always been about seeing clearly, speaking honestly, and acting decisively,” O’Rourke announced in a series of tweets. “In that spirit: I am announcing that my service to the country will not be as a candidate or as the nominee.”
Beto represented Texas’s 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019.