'I hereby announce that I am suspending my candidacy for President of the United States, effective immediately,” Weld said in a statement.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, the last Republican challenging President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary, ended his longshot presidential bid Wednesday.
”I am immensely grateful to all the patriotic women and men who have stood with me during the past eleven months in our effort to bring better government to Washington, D.C.,” he continued. “We have a president whose priorities are skewed towards promotion of himself rather than for the good of the country,” Weld said in February. “He may have great energy and considerable raw talent but he does not use that in ways that promote democracy, truth, justice and equal opportunity for all. To compound matters, our president is simply too unstable to carry out the duties of the highest executive office in the land.
As a former Massachusetts governor, Weld also tried to compete in New Hampshire, due to the state's proximity to his home state.
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