Former West Virginia State Senator Richard Ojeda (D) suspended his 2020 campaign for President of the United States on Friday. Ojeda served in the West Virginia State Senate from 2016 through 2019. He lost a bid to represent the state’s 3rd Congressional district in 2018 to Carol Miller (R).

 

Ojeda was one of nine Democratic elected officials or notable public figures that had filed to run for president with the Federal Election Commission or announced exploratory committees.

 

Ojeda is the first to suspend a campaign.

 

The others still running:

* Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, announced that he was running for president on January 23, 2019.

* Julian Castro, a former U.S. secretary of housing and urban development and San Antonio mayor, formally announced his candidacy on January 12, 2019.

* John Delaney, a former U.S. representative from Maryland, filed to run for president on August 10, 2017.

* Tulsi Gabbard, a U.S. representative from Hawaii, announced that she had decided to run for president on January 11, 2019.

* Kirsten Gillibrand, a U.S. senator from New York, announced that she was running for president on January 15, 2019.

* Kamala Harris, a U.S. senator from California, announced that she was running for president on January 21, 2019.

* Elizabeth Warren, U.S. senator from Massachusetts, announced she had formed an exploratory committee on December 31, 2018.

* Andrew Yang, an entrepreneur from New York, filed to run for president on November 6, 2017.

 

As of January 24, 2019, 479 candidates had already filed with the FEC to run for president.