First GOP candidate drops out
Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore ended his longshot campaign for presidency.
The 57-year-old Republican said in a written statement that his late start, near the end of April, and the front-loaded primary schedule “have made it impractical to continue.”
Gilmore is the first of the 10 GOP presidential candidates to drop out. He barely registered in polls. “The reality is, we’re raising money in the hundreds of thousands, and the front-runners are raising in the millions,” he said in an interview.
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