{"id":39440,"date":"2019-10-24T17:26:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T17:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39440"},"modified":"2019-10-24T17:26:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T17:26:02","slug":"rep-ryan-drops-out-of-2020-race-for-potus-more-should-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39440","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Ryan drops out of 2020 race for POTUS; more should follow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan didn’t have a prayer of being nominated by the Democratic Party for the presidency of the United States, let alone of being elected.<\/p>\n

So, today he called a halt to it.<\/p>\n

Frankly, in the discussion about the still-monstrous Democratic field, I barely ever heard his name mentioned.<\/p>\n

Ryan is done. There clearly needs to be others who will step aside, return to what they were doing before they decided to run. Former Housing Secretary and ex-San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro has said he needs to raise $800,000 soon; if he falls short, he’s out. Hmm.\u00a0 We’ll see.<\/p>\n

Look, the race has boiled down to about five, maybe six Democrats.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg and perhaps Amy Klobuchar are still in the hunt. The rest of them? Well, they ought to reconsider their future.<\/p>\n

I’ll presume Rep. Ryan does a good job for his Ohio constituents.<\/p>\n

The winnowing of the field should continue. I am growing tired of trying to listen to the field seek to outshout one another on those joint appearance stages.<\/p>\n\n

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U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan didn’t have a prayer of being nominated by the Democratic Party for the presidency of the United States, let alone of being elected. So, today he called a halt to it. Frankly, in the discussion about the still-monstrous Democratic field, I barely ever heard his name mentioned. Ryan is done. There … Continue reading Rep. Ryan drops out of 2020 race for POTUS; more should follow<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7225,1342,3688],"class_list":["post-39440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-democratic-primary","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39443,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39440\/revisions\/39443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}