Very much for joining me. I want to express to each of you, my deep gratitude for helping to create an unprecedented grassroots hadtical campaign which is a profound impact in changing our nation. I want to thank the hundreds of thousands of volunteers who knocked on doors, millions of them in the freezing winters of iowa and New Hampshire and in the heat of nevada and south carolina, in states throughout the country. Want to thank the 2 million americans who contributed financially to our campaign and showed the world that we can take on a corrupt Campaign Finance system and run a major president ial campaign without being dependent on the wealthy and the powerful. Thank you for your 10 million contributions averaging 18 and . 50 per donation. Didnt to thank those who the phone bank for the campaign and those who sent out millions of texts i want to thank the many hundreds of thousands of americans who attended our rallies, town meetings and house parties from new york to california. Overof these events had 25,000 people, some had a few hundred and some had a dozen. But all were important and i want to thank those who made many of them possible. I want to thank our surrogates, too many to name. I cannot imagine that any candidate has ever been blessed with a stronger and more dedicated group of people who have taken our message to every part of this country i want to thank all of those who made the music in the art and integral part of the campaign. I want to thank all of you who spoke to your friends and neighbors, posted on social media, and work as hard as you could to make this a better country. Together, 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. We also want to thank the many hundreds of people on our campaign staff. You were willing to move from one state to another and do all the work that has to be done. No job was too big or too small for you. You rolled up your sleeves and you did it. You embodied the words that are at the core of our movement, not me, but us. I thank each and everyone of you for what you have done. As many of you will recall, nelson mandela, one of the great Freedom Fighters in modern world it alwaysamously said seems impossible until it is done. What he meant by that is that the greatest obstacle to real social change has everything to do with the power of the corporate and political establishment to limit our vision as to what is possible and what we are entitled. To as we are entitled to health care and the human right, we will never achieve universal health care. If we dont believe we are entitled to decent wages and working conditions, millions of us will continue to live in poverty. If we dont believe that we are entitled to all of the education we require to fulfill our dreams, many of us will leave school saddled with huge debt or never get the education we need. If we dont believe that we are entitled to live in a world that has a Clean Environment and is not ravaged by climate change, we will continue to see more drought, floods and rising sea levels and increasingly uninhabitable planet. If we dont believe that we are entitled to rid the world of injustice without racial bigotry, we will continue to have massive income and wealth and inequality, prejudice incarceration,s terrified immigrants and hundreds of thousands of americans sleeping out on the street and the richest country on earth. And focusing on that new vision for america is what our campaign has been about and what, in fact, we have accomplished. Few would deny that over the course of the past five years, our movement has won the ideological struggle in socalled red states and blue states and purple states, a majority of the American People now understand that we must raise the minimum wage to at must 15 per hour, that we guarantee health care as a right to all of our people, that we must transform our Energy System away from fossil fuels and that Higher Education must be available to all regardless of income. It was not long ago that people considered these ideas radical and french. Mainstream ideas and many of them are already being implemented in cities and states across the country. That is what we have accomplished together. Care, even health before this horrific pandemic we are now experiencing, more and more americans understood that we must move to a medicare for all singlepayer program. During the primary elections, exit polls showed in state after state, a Strong Majority of democratic primary voters supported a single Government HealthInsurance Program to replace private insurance. That was true even in states where our campaign did not prevail. Let me just say this care, with health the crisis we are now in, it has exposed for all to see how absurd our current employerbased Health Insurance system is. The current economic downturn we are experiencing has not only lead to a massive loss of jobs but has also resulted in millions of americans losing their Health Insurance. While americans have been told over and over again how employerbased private insurance system is, those claims sound very hollow today as a growing number of unemployed workers struggle with how they can afford to go to the doctor or not go bankrupt with a huge hospital bill. We have always believed that Health Care Must be considered as a human right, not an Employee Benefit and we are right. That notso appreciate only are we winning the struggle ideologically but we are also winning it generationally. The future of our country rests with young people, in state after state whether we won or lost, the democratic primaries or caucuses, we received a significant majority of the vote , sometimes an overwhelming majority from people not only 30 years of age or under but 50 years of age or younger. In other words, the future of this country is with our ideas. All painfully aware, we now face an unprecedented crisis. Not only are we dealing with the coronavirus pandemic which is taking the lives of many thousands of our people but we are also dealing with an economic melt down that has resulted in the loss of millions of jobs. Today, families across our country face Financial Hardship on a manageable only a few months ago. Because of the unacceptable level of income and wealth and inequality in our economy, many of our friends and neighbors have little or no savings and are desperately trying to pay their rent or mortgage or even put food on the table. This reality makes it clear to me that Congress Must address this unprecedented crisis in an unprecedented way that protects the health and economic will being of the working families of our country, not just powerful interests. As a member of the democratic leadership in the United States senate and as a senator from the state of vermont, this is something that i intend to intensely be involved in over the next number of months on that will require an enormous amount of work. The state ofe to our president ial campaign. I wish i could give you better news but i think you know the truth. That is that we are now some 300 delegates behind Vice President biden and the path to victory is virtually impossible. While we are winning the ideological battle and we are winning the support of so many young people and working people throughout the country, i have concluded that this battle for the democratic nomination will not be successful. So today, i am announcing the suspension of my campaign. Please know that i do not make this decision lightly. In fact, it has been a very difficult and painful decision. Over the past few weeks, jane and i in consultation with top staff and many of our prominent supporters, have made an honest assessment of the prospects of victory. If i believed we had a reasonable path to the nomination, i would continue the campaign but its just not there. I know there may be some in our movement who disagree with this decision, who would like us to fight on to the last ballot at the Democratic Convention. I understand that position. But as i see the crisis gripping the nation, exacerbated by a president unwilling or unable to provide any kind of credible leadership and the work that needs to be done to protect people in this most desperate hour, i cannot, in good conscience, continue to mount a campaign that cannot win and which would interfere with the important work required of all of us in this difficult hour. Let me say this very emphatically as you all know, we have never been just a campaign. We are a grassroots, multiracial, Multigenerational Movement which is always believed that real change never comes from the top down but always from the bottom on up. ,e have taken on wall street the insurance companies, the drug companies, the fossil fuel industry, the militaryindustrial complex, the Prison Industrial Complex and the greed of the entire corporate elite. That struggle continues. While this campaign is coming to an end, our movement is not. Dr. Martin luther king jr. Reminded us that the ark of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. The fight for justice is what our campaign has been about. The fight for justice is what our movement remains about. Biden,i congratulate joe a very decent man, who i will work with to move our progressive ideas forward. On a practical note, let me also say this, i will stay on the ballot in all remitting states and continued to gather delegates while Vice President biden will be the nominee. We must continue working to assemble as many delegates as possible at the Democratic Convention where we will be able to exert significant influence over the Party Platform and other functions. United,gether, standing we will go forward to defeat donald trump, the most dangerous president in modern american history. We will fight to elect strong progressives at every level of government from congress to the school board. As i hope all of you know, this race has never been about me. I ran for the presidency because i believe that as a president , i could accelerate and institutionalize the progressive changes that we are all building together. If we keep organizing and fighting, i have no doubt that that is exactly what will happen. Be behind ust may now, we will change this nation and with likeminded friends around the grove around the globe, change it profoundly. Speaking for jane, myself and our entire family, we will always carry in our hearts the memory of the Extraordinary People we have met across this country. We often hear about the beauty of america in this country is incredibly beautiful. For me, the beauty i will remember most is in the faces of the people we have met from one corner of this nation to the other. The compassion, love, and decency i have seen in them makes me so hopeful for our future. It also makes me more determined than ever to work to create a nation that reflects those values and lifts up all of our people. Please stay in this fight with me. Et us go Forward Together the struggle continues. Thank you all very much. Senator sanders political rival, joe biden, released a statement that reads in part, bernie has put his heart and soul and to not only running for president but the causes and issues he has been dedicated to his whole life. He is not just run a political campaign, hes created a movement. He goes on to say that as friends, joe and i want to say to bernie and jane, we know how hard this is. You put the interest of the nation and the need to defeat donald trump above all else and for that jill and i are grateful. We also want you to know i will reach out to you and you will be heard by me, as you say, not me, us. Changed cspanas again 41 years ago but our Mission Continues to provide an unfiltered view of government. Already this year, we brought you primary election coverage, the president ial impeachment process, and now the coronavirus. 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