Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersMcConnell accuses Democrats of sowing division by 'downplaying progress' on election security The Hill's Campaign Report: Arizona shifts towards Biden | Biden prepares for drive-in town hall | New Biden ad targets Latino voters Why Democrats must confront extreme left wing incitement to violence MORE (I-Vt.) announced to his supporters on Wednesday that he was suspending his second bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

“Few would deny that over the course of the past five years our movement has won the ideological struggle,” Sanders said in a live stream video.

"It was not long ago that people considered these ideas radical and fringe," the progressive senator added. "Today they are mainstream ideas, and many of them are already being implemented in cities and states across the country. That is what we have accomplished together."

Read his entire remarks below.