Jindal, 44, was the first person of Indian-American heritage to run for USA president.
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After five months of campaigning for president, Jindal called it quits Tuesday. He was running for Louisiana governor against Kathleen Blanco. He was easily reelected in 2011 – and quickly began positioning himself for a near-inevitable presidential candidacy in 2016.
Bobby Jindal will travel across the state as his term winds down, highlighing his administration’s accomplishments and looking to the state’s future needs. He also hadn’t been able move past the “undercard” round at the Republican debates. Jindal, one of more than 15 GOP contenders, struggled to gain in the polls and only nabbed 1% support among Republican primary voters in the 9 November poll by McClatchy/Marist. “We can not settle for the left’s view of envy and division”, Jindal said in a statement. 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.
“It’s not going to be Trump”, said Jindal.
“You know, the differences between me and Bobby Jindal, we can talk about those, and obviously, Bobby wants to spend a lot of time tonight talking about that”, Christie said.
“As for the campaign we had, a very lean campaign staff. We kept expenses to a minimum, we don’t have any debt”, Teepell said. Jindal’s goal was obvious: Appeal to social conservatives who do believe strongly that the fraying of our culture is to blame for events like these mass shootings.
“This is not my time”, he said in during an interview on FOX News. Believing that government experience is empirical in a presidential candidate, Jindal will probably back Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio than the leading candidates, Trump or Carson.
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In his suspension announcement, Jindal included a mention of his parents, who immigrated to the United States from India nearly 50 years ago. The technocrat clashed with the populist, and Jindal was never really able to unite the two career paths into one executive narrative.
