Sen. Amy Klobuchar is dropping out of the 2020 presidential race after a disappointing performance in South Carolina, CNN and The New York Times reported on Monday.

CNN reported that Klobuchar would endorse former Vice President Joe Biden, the overwhelming winner of the South Carolina primary.

Klobuchar’s surprise New Hampshire surge and the subsequent fundraising windfall wasn’t enough to carry her to victory in the following primary states.

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Sen. Amy Klobuchar is dropping out of the 2020 presidential race after a disappointing performance in the South Carolina primary, CNN and The New York Times reported on Monday.

News: Senator Amy Klobuchar will suspend her campaign Monday night and endorse Joe Biden, an aide to the senator tells CNN. Klobuchar is flying to Dallas to join Vice President Biden at his rally tonight where she will endorse the former Vice President. — Dan Merica (@merica) March 2, 2020

CNN reported that Klobuchar would endorse former Vice President Joe Biden, the overwhelming winner in South Carolina. She’s exiting the race a day before Super Tuesday, when 14 states, including her home state of Minnesota, are set to vote in primaries.

On Sunday, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg similarly dropped out of the race after failing to earn delegates in South Carolina. Earlier on Monday, CNN reported that Buttigieg was also considering throwing his weight behind Biden.

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Since announcing her presidential campaign in February 2019, the senator from Minnesota has generated enthusiastic support from many Democrats – and even some conservatives – who saw her as the most solid option to take on President Donald Trump in 2020.

The three-term senator and former prosecutor is by all accounts a liberal but is further toward the ideological center of the Democratic Party than many other 2020 candidates. She also has a long history of winning over rural, Republican areas in Minnesota and effectively working with Republicans on legislation.

But for most of the primary cycle, Klobuchar was crowded out of the moderate lane by Buttigieg, who led her among white and college-educated voters, and even more so by Biden, who bested the other candidates among non-college-educated and particularly black and Latino voters.

But her candidacy got a second look ahead of the New Hampshire primary on February 11 with a breakout debate performance on February 7. Klobuchar exceeded expectations by coming in third place, with almost 20% of the vote, overperforming her polling and earning six delegates when higher-polling rivals went on to Nevada empty-handed.

But still, her surprise New Hampshire surge and the subsequent fundraising windfall wasn’t enough to carry her to victory in the following primary states, where other candidates had invested significant organizational muscle and financial resources as Klobuchar hedged her bets on Iowa.

As many reports documented, she had little to no ground presence or campaign infrastructure in either Nevada or South Carolina, essentially winging it with whatever resources she did have in each state.