Duncan Exits Governor’s Race, Citing Depression
Douglas M. Duncan abruptly ended his run for governor, saying that he is battling clinical depression, a development that transforms the state’s most high-profile political battle into a sharply focused duel.
Duncan threw his support behind a fellow Democrat, Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley, the man he has been pummeling in television ads and speeches in the Democratic gubernatorial primary campaign for the last nine months.
In the general election, O’Malley will face Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.
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