Bachmann ended her campaign to become the 2012 Republican presidential nominee today.
US Representative Michele Bachmann ended her campaign to become the 2012 Republican presidential nominee today and called on supporters to rally behind the party’s eventual choice.
Bachmann ignored shouted questions from reporters on whom she would endorse.
«I have decided to stand aside … I will not be continuing in this race for the presidency,» Bachmann told a news conference in Des Moines, Iowa.
Bachmann said Republicans must unite behind the Republican presidential nominee to roll back Democratic President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul and «take back our country.»
«I believe that we must rally around the person that our country and our party and our people select to be that standard bearer,» she told aides, reporters and supporters gathered at her hotel.
She hugged several weeping aides before climbing aboard her campaign bus.
Her announcement came a day after she received only 5 percent of the vote in the Iowa nominating caucuses, dealing what many saw as a fatal blow to her presidential ambitions.
Her decision to pull out could favor rival Rick Santorum, who narrowly came in second to Mitt Romney in yesterday’s Iowa caucuses.
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