US Senator Bernie Sanders has suspended his 2020 presidential campaign paving the way for a battle between US President Donald Trump and Joe Biden in the November elections.
Bernie Sanders alongside Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren were seen as strong contenders when they announced their intentions to run for the highest office in the US in 2019 and Bernie led early party delegation voting lists in January.
Mr Sanders, 78, told his campaign staff about his decision on a conference call on Wednesday .
He said “We have transformed American consciousness as to what kind of nation we can become and have taken this country a major step forward in the never-ending struggle for economic justice, social justice, racial justice and environmental justice,” Mr Sanders told supporters in a live stream. Our movement has won the ideological struggle.”