Jim Webb Just Dropped Out of the Democratic Race and Feels Great About It
Mother Jones
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Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb announced on Tuesday afternoon that he’s no longer running for president as a Democrat. Whether he’s still running for president at all is still an open question.
The announcement for his press conference said that Webb was considering running as independent. He didn’t explicitly commit to such a run on Tuesday, saying only that he would spend the coming weeks trying to assess potential support. “I am not going away. I am thinking through all of my options,” he told reporters at the National Press Club. But he insisted that he’d not only be able to raise more money and earn more support as an independent, but that he could beat current front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. “If we ran an independent race that worked and got traction, I honestly could see us beating both of them,” he said. Craig Crawford, Webb’s spokesman, told CNN that he expects Webb to make a decision on whether he’ll make an independent bid for the presidency “by the holidays.”
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Jim Webb Just Dropped Out of the Democratic Race and Feels Great About It
