[Elizabeth Warren has dropped out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race.]

Senator Elizabeth Warren, who last summer rose to the top of polls in several presidential primary states, on Tuesday reached the nadir of her bid for the White House: a third-place finish in her home state, Massachusetts.

Ms. Warren lost after liberal voters split sharply between her and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who flew into the state last weekend to campaign in hopes of dealing her a powerful setback. But instead it was former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. who came in first place in Massachusetts, winning voters over 50, moderates, black voters and even some liberals.

The result represented her worst-case scenario. Ms. Warren had already finished in third place or worse in the early nominating states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. That left her on the sidelines after Mr. Sanders and Mr. Biden picked up momentum and dominated the 16 Super Tuesday contests, which included delegate-rich states like California, Texas and North Carolina, as well as Democratic strongholds like Massachusetts.

Super Tuesday ended with the campaign effectively a contest between two clear front-runners, Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders, who have represented the party’s moderate and liberal wings for most of the last year. Ms. Warren competed for months against Mr. Sanders to be the progressive standard-bearer in the race, but on Super Tuesday she did not win any contests.