Jim Gilmore ends 2016 presidential bid

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

Former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore has suspended his long-shot campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/12/jim-gilmore-ends-2016-presidential-bid/

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Is there a difference?

[rtracey]

1. oh

NOOOOOO , sorry who?

[nichomachus]

2. Who? n/t

[dhill926]

3. fittingly on a Friday news dump...

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. That's the first thing I thought

I guess Rubio, Cruz and Trump will have to rumble for those 3 votes!

[MrScorpio]

4. What? He was running? nt

[Eugene]

5. So who gets his <%1 of GOP supporters?

If not for Rachel Maddow, I would have completely missed him.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. When you get fewer votes in the NH primary than Vermin Supreme

it's time to call it a day: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/vermin-supreme-receives-votes-gov-jim-gilmore-article-1.2526474

[cannabis_flower]

17. He probably got less votes than

Dez Nutz!

[Gothmog]

7. Rachel Maddow has lost her only GOP buddy

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

8. Suspending implies he's going to get back in at some point

Just quit, you assholes.

[FSogol]

9. No, suspending means they can keep the fundraising operations going to pay off the remaining

accounts payable.

[Kennah]

10. Best part of the cancellations is finding out who was running n/t

[Yavin4]

11. Jim Gilmore!?!!? Noooooo. He was sooo close....

to getting 1% of the vote.

[underpants]

15. YES the tide was turning (through attrition) GILMOREmemtum was about to rise!!!!

Feel the Drill!

[Little Tich]

12. The first time I hear about him running is when he gives up. n/t

[davidpdx]

13. Not a huge surprise

They are dropping like flies now and the herd is narrowing. I think either Bush or Carson would be the next logical to drop. I don't think that will happen until after Super Tuesday.

We maybe looking at Trump as the Republican nominee if someone doesn't take him down.

[underpants]

14. NOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Bucky]

16. Is that the guy from the "Know Whut I Mean, Vern?" commercials? I thought he was dead.

As dead as Jim Gilmore's chances ever were.

[beac]

18. Poor Jim. No one knew he was running and on the day he annouces he's quitting

Scalia up and dies.

Gilmore can't even slink back to obscurity because he never left.