Tracking the 2016 Election Candidates

Pataki cancels a few tour dates. But his campaign claims he is not officially suspending the campaign effort.

On Friday, Rick Perry ended his second attempt to run for the White House. (The first was in 2012.) His campaign has no more funding to keep staff paid.

On Monday, Wisconsin governor Scott Walker ended his campaign. He claimed that the GOP race was becoming too nasty.

Walker also called on other Republican hopefuls to suspend their efforts as well–claiming this would make it easier to stop the campaign success of front-runner Donald Trump.

On Tuesday, Jim Webb ended his run for the White House. Webb was not successful in raising enough money to keep his campaign going forward, and he could not gain much excitement in the poll measurements against his main Democratic Party rivals.

On Wednesday, vice president Joseph Biden announced to the media and to the country that he would definitively NOT be running for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination.

Many have wondered if Biden might step in and try to win the nomination from Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders.

This morning, Lincoln Chafee became the second Democratic candidate this week to end his run for the White House. Jim Webb withdrew on Tuesday.

Chafee had trouble at the recent Democratic party debate grabbing attention and getting his campaign message across. He also struggled to raise sufficient money to keep his campaign staff.

On Tuesday, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal ended his campaign effort to win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination for the 2016 election.

Jindal said during his announcement that “[T]his is not my time, so I am suspending my campaign for president.”

George Pataki, another of the possible Republican nominee candidates called a official halt to his campaign.

Pataki never gained much support in his campaign for the 2016 party nomination. Despite being governor of New York for  three terms, he never caught hold during this election run. His polling numbers never moved above 3 percent and he was never able to get the main group of party supporters to give him much time to make this agenda clear.

After winning less than 2% of the caucus precincts in Iowa Monday evening, Mike Huckabee announced that he was ending his race for the 2016 Republican Party presidential nomination.

After a disappointing showing in Iowa on Monday evening, Martin O’Malley closed his campaign run for the Democratic Party.

Now only Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders remain in their hopes to succeed Barack Obama and keep the Democratic Party in control of the White House for four more years.

After a poor performance in Iowa, Republicans Rick Santorum and Rand Paul separately announced that their efforts to gain the GOP nomination would end.

Carly Fiorina suspended her campaign efforts after poor results in the Iowa caucuses, being left out of the final New Hampshire debate, and a poor showing in the New Hampshire primary.

The governor of New Jersey and well-known national politician, Chris Christie, could not gather enough public support to keep his campaign for the nomination going. After a lackluster result in the nation’s first primary, Christie announced he was dropping out of the GOP race.

The former governor of Virginia, Jim Gilmore announced that his efforts for the Republican nomination was suspended.

Jeb Bush, the Republican candidate with the famous family and the strong name recognition, announced that his campaign for the nomination was over on Saturday night. Bush failed to win any of the early state primaries and he never gained enough attention from the party members who keep pushing Donald Trump forward.

Ben Carson may be bowing out of the Republican race, after a poor Super Tuesday showing. Following another slate of unsuccessful primary and caucus results, the doctor said he would not be attending the upcoming Republican debate this coming Thursday night.

Carson has not yet formally suspended his campaign, but admitted that he did not see a clear path toward securing the GOP nomination for himself. He suggested that he may have a more substantive announcement on Friday.

It is not that surprising that Dr. Ben Carson ended his campaign effort today. After the announcement on Wednesday that he would not attend the GOP debate, most people suspected his run was ending.

And today, Carson made it official. He vowed to keep fighting for America, but he would not be challenging for the Republican nomination any further.

In the evening of Tuesday, as the poll numbers came in across Florida, it became clear that Marco Rubio was losing his home state. Rubio was only able to convincingly win Miami-Dade County, his home county.

And so, Rubio announced at approximately 8:30 pm that he was ending his run for the nomination in this 2016 race. He praised his team and his campaign of positivity, but noted that it did not get voter’s attention in this particular election year.

Last week Ted Cruz named Carly Fiorina as his vice presidential running mate. But Cruz’s campaign had not caught fire with a majority of voters around the nation.

After another convincing loss to Donald Trump in Indiana, Cruz called a halt to his campaign.

Today, John Kasich announced that he was suspending his campaign for the Republican Party nomination, just at Ted Cruz did yesterday evening.

This leaves Donald Trump unopposed through the rest of the GOP primary races and clears the path for him to be the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party when the convention is held in Cleveland this coming July.