Bobby Jindal is a total failure, suspends presidential campaign

The Fox Business team was the first to ask hard policy questions of the Republican candidates in any sense, and the prior debates-well viewed as they have been-have left out the obvious policy issues on many counts.

In light of all that, it seems simultaneously fitting and ironic that after concluding that he did not have a viable path to the presidency, Jindal announced on Tuesday that he would seek to reclaim his identity as a policy wonk.

During his time as Governor of Louisiana, his politics played further and further to the conservative side, until finally he lost all support with swing voters.

On paper, Jindal was a uniquely well qualified presidential candidate. And, at 44 and an Indian American to boot, Jindal very much represented the new face Republicans wanted – and needed – to put forward in 2016. He was relegated to the so-called undercard debates.

Still, Jindal seems committed to pushing his message of American exceptionalism and xenophobia to the masses, saying: “Now is the time for all those Americans who still believe in freedom and American exceptionalism to stand up and defend it. The idea of America – the idea that my parents came here for nearly a half a century ago – that idea is slipping away from us”.

Jindal has also not been particularly popular in his role as governor. Jindal said in a statement posted on his campaign website.

Like Trump, Jindal has trumpeted a political vision that stresses peril, not possibility.

“As for the campaign we had, a very lean campaign staff. We kept expenses to a minimum, we don’t have any debt”, Teepell said. Jindal added that he hasn’t thought about which of the remaining candidates to endorse, but the country “better elect the right president so that we can restore the American dream before it’s too late”. He wasn’t – and isn’t – the funniest candidate (Trump or Chris Christie) or the most charismatic (Trump or Marco Rubio).

“It’s been a incredible honor for me to run for president of the United States”. The technocrat clashed with the populist, and Jindal was never really able to unite the two career paths into one executive narrative.