Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton has dropped his looooooooong-shot bid to be president, where he gained little more traction than he had trying to challenge Nancy Pelosi to be speaker of the House.
Moulton might have decided that setting his sights an office lower was potentially more beneficial, as he "said in an interview that he had no immediate plans to endorse another candidate, but he warmly praised former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr." Maybe he's looking at the VP slot for himself. He isn't going to get the chance for that with anyone but Biden, warning "I think it's evident that this is now a three-way race between Biden, Warren and Sanders, and really it's a debate about how far left the party should go." Because the Democrats should clearly be listening to this guy.
Moulton will run for reelection to his House seat, where he now has a primary and the folks back home scratching their heads over what he was trying to accomplish with this run and what that means for his future. An opinion columnist in the Boston Globe summed it up. "Moulton clearly isn’t going to be our next president, so what’s next? He has always treated the job he has like a steppingstone to his true destiny, and voters tend to resent that. His time as a congressman could be done."