Goodbye Martin!
O’MALLEY OUT AFTER IOWA: Former Gov. Martin O’Malley announced the suspension of his presidential campaign Monday night, following a dismal showing in the Iowa caucuses that effectively ended his long-simmering White House ambitions, writes John Wagner in the Post.
- It was eight months after he stood in Federal Hill Park to launch a campaign he said would deliver a message of “new leadership” in the race for the Democratic nomination, when O’Malley told supporters in Iowa that he had “fought very hard … to give people a choice” but that the time had come to suspend that effort.
- O’Malley’s wife Katie O’Malley and their four children stood by him onstage at Wooly’s, a downtown music venue, for the announcement, write Grant Rodgers of the Des Moines Register and David Jackson of USA Today. More than 100 supporters stood in front of the stage cheering as he repeated lines from the campaign trail.
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