the guy from SC

[gopiscrap]

just dropped out of the DNC chair race per MSNBC

[MattP]

1. Mayor Pete just dropped out

[gopiscrap]

2. yup

which will probably help Ellison

[bunnies]

4. Nooooooo!!!!

God dammit!

[femmocrat]

3. Pete Buttigieg of Indiana just dropped out.

Mayor of South Bend. He did not endorse another candidate.

The man from SC is Jaime Harrison, who dropped out a couple of days ago and endorsed Perez.

[mchill]

5. No reason given?

[mchill]

6. 12:54 p.m. ET: South Bend, Ind., Mayor Drops out, declines to endorse

South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg has dropped out of the DNC chair race, even before the first round of voting began. He did not endorse anyone else.

"It looks like I'm not going to be the next DNC chair," he said, but he urged whoever would be not just to pay attention to the presidency, but to small towns "not as a foreign species."

Buttigieg called on the party to "engage a new generation." He added, "There's nothing wrong with our bench. We just haven't called enough people on the bench off the bench and onto the field."

He said being chairman "is not just about policy; it is soul craft."

Alluding to Trump, he said America has a leader who appeals to darkness. But, he added, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness. We have the opportunity to do the reverse."