Bobby Jindal suspends presidential campaign

“I haven’t given it a lot of thought”, Jindal said. Jindal will drop out of the 2016 race in the same way he entered: quietly.

“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 served as Louisiana’s governor since 2008, and is popular amongst the local community for overseeing the mass evacuation of his state’s coastal areas during Hurricane Gustav in his first year in office. Indeed, few White House hopefuls in recent memory, especially among Republicans, have brought such an impressive resume to the table: he has experience at the state and federal level, from the legislative and executive branches.

Bobby Jindal (R) is ending his presidential bid.

Jindal said Tuesday he plans to continue churning out policy ideas at a think tank once he leaves the governorship in January.

Jindal has rebounded strongly from what was widely considered an unimpressive – and possibly embarrassing – selection to give the Republican response to President Barack Obama’s address to Congress in 2009.

He becomes the third Republican candidate to drop out from the race, following former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Jindal’s goal was obvious: Appeal to social conservatives who do believe strongly that the fraying of our culture is to blame for events like these mass shootings.

This time around, Bobby Jindal’s campaign was never able to rise up in the polls, relegating him to the undercard debates and keeping him well out of public view.

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.

Anderson reiterated the campaign’s annoyance with the focus on national polls, and not early state polls, to determine debate participants.

“Even though I’m not going to be a candidate for president, we had better elect the right president so that we can restore the American dream before it’s too late”.