OREANDA-NEWS. Former Mayor of South Bend (Indiana), Pete Buttigieg, declared that he had refused to participate in the race for the US presidential election from the Democratic Party. “Tonight, I’m making the difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the presidency. I will no longer seek to be the 2020 Democratic nominee for President,” the politician said.

US President Donald Trump, after the appearance of this information, said that Buttigieg’s votes during the “Super Tuesday” will go to his rival Joe Biden, which will lead to the loss of Bernie Sanders. “Pete Buttigieg is out. All of his SuperTuesday votes will go to Sleepy Joe Biden. Great timing. This is tha real beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play – no nomination, again!” he wrote on Twitter.

In the first three elections, Sanders was in the lead with 45 votes, Buttigieg gained 25, Biden got 15, Elizabeth Warren received 8 voices, 7 delegates voted for Amy Klobuchar.