Jindal drops out of presidential race

“But given this insane, unpredictable election season, clearly there just wasn’t a lot of interest in those policy papers”. Jindal will drop out of the 2016 race in the same way he entered: quietly. He is the third Republican candidate-following Rick Perry and Scott Walker-to drop out of the race.

Jindal, who is the first elected Indian-American governor in the country, made the decision after his campaign failed to gain traction among Republican voters.

His departure leaves 14 Republicans in the nomination hunt, including billionaire frontrunner Donald Trump, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Senator Marco Rubio and former Florida governor Jeb Bush.

“I can not tell you what an honor it has been to run for president of the United States of America”, Jindal wrote in an email. The reality is they told me as a young child that Americans can do anything.

Jindal has dealt with hurricanes and disasters of enormous scale, he has drained the swamp of corrupt Louisiana politics, and he has pushed the issue of school choice to new heights-but he never caught fire in the presidential field. But, he said, “I’ve come to the realization this is not my time”.

“Going forward, I believe we have to the party of growth and we can never stop being the party that believes in opportunity”, Jindal said.

He argued that Republicans needed to nominate a real conservative to have a chance of winning the White House, not someone with a moderate streak. Let us take a moment to reflect on Jindal’s departure from the race.

Numerous pundits questioned why Jindal was running for president.

But in 2009 he was judged even by fellow Republicans to have fluffed the party’s televised response to President Barack Obama’s first address to Congress.

Jindal has become a staple on the undercard debates throughout the summer, not managing to make a break-through in the polls.

Kind words given how Jindal went after the billionaire businessman during the campaign, most notably in a September 10 speech at the National Press Club in Washington that most pundits viewed as a strategy to boost his profile.

The term-limited Jindal has said after leaving office he will return to work for the think tank America Next.