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| Elizabeth Warren ends presidential bid | Elizabeth Warren ends presidential bid |
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| Senator Elizabeth Warren will end her presidential campaign after a poor showing on Super Tuesday. | |
| A favourite of the liberal left, the Massachusetts senator had been a frontrunner in the Democratic field. | A favourite of the liberal left, the Massachusetts senator had been a frontrunner in the Democratic field. |
| However, Ms Warren, 70, failed to convert early excitement into votes. | However, Ms Warren, 70, failed to convert early excitement into votes. |
| The Democratic contest to take on President Donald Trump is now seen as a two-horse race between former Vice-President Joe Biden, 77, and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, 78. | |
| Ms Warren's endorsement will now be highly sought after by both candidates. | |
| Her departure will clear the path for Mr Sanders in particular, now the sole progressive candidate left in the race. | |
| The erudite Ms Warren vaulted into the political arena more than a decade ago as she pushed for tougher regulation of the financial sector after the 2008 economic collapse. | |
| She championed the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - a government agency that would serve as a Wall Street watchdog. | |
| In 2010, she helped the Obama White House set it up. | |
| Two years later, the former Harvard law professor rode that momentum to a seat in the US Senate for Massachusetts. | |
| Though her name was floated as a possible 2016 Democratic nominee, the senator demurred, saying she was not interested in the top job. | |
| This time around, Ms Warren was the first major Democratic candidate to announce her plans for a presidential bid. | |
| Early in the race, her policy-centric approach - "I've got a plan for that" was a favourite refrain - seemed effective. In October last year, she led most national polls. | |
| But by December 2019, Ms Warren had been pushed back, hurt by a difficult debate where her rivals hammered her over key policy promises like Medicare for All. | |
| And despite massive investments in early voting states, Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, Ms Warren failed to be a top-two finisher in any - in fact she came third in her home state Massachusetts on Super Tuesday. | |
| With Ms Warren's departure, a Democratic race that began with a record high of female candidates is now effectively left to two male front-runners. |