Elizabeth Warren dropping out of 2020 election race after dismal Super Tuesday performance

She will inform her staff on Thursday, reports say

Elizabeth Warren is dropping out of the 2020 presidential race after her disappointing finish on Super Tuesday, according to multiple reports.

The Massachusetts senator plans to end her presidential campaign on Thursday, a person close with her told the New York Times.

When entering the race in February 2019, Ms Warren came in as someone who vowed to end corruption in Washington and push forward her many policy plans to improve the country.

Her policies veered closer to the left side of the Democratic Party, as she advocated for a Medicare For All plan similar to that of Bernie Sanders and paying off college debt for students. Another priority from the progressive candidate was to show how a political campaign could be built on a grassroots movement through accepting small-dollar donors over campaign fundraisers.

Although she gained support early into the race, which catapulted her to the top of the candidate list, the senator saw her path to the nomination dwindle after the Iowa caucus, where she placed third.

New Hampshire and Nevada followed closely behind, and Ms Warren dropped down to a fourth. In South Carolina, she came in fifth.

The senator and her campaign still held out hope momentum from Super Tuesday could propel her to take on frontrunners like Mr Sanders and compete for the nomination. But the landscape of the Democratic candidates quickly changed following the South Carolina primary when both Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar dropped out of the race.

The dropouts, and their subsequent endorsements of Joe Biden, catapulted the former vice president to frontrunner position on Super Tuesday where he won the most delegates.

Ms Warren was left forgotten by voters as it became a race between Mr Biden and Mr Sanders for voters in a majority of the 14 states. In her own state of Massachusetts, Ms Warren took third and only earned 23 of the 91 available delegates.

After the news broke on Thursday, President Donald Trump decided to add his take on Twitter.

"Elizabeth 'Pocahontas' Warren, who was going nowhere except into Mini Mike’s head, just dropped out of the Democrat Primary...THREE DAYS TOO LATE. She cost Crazy Bernie, at least, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Texas. Probably cost him the nomination! Came in third in Mass,' he wrote.

The senator dropping out of the race comes after billionaire Mike Bloomberg announced on Wednesday he would be halting his campaign over his own dismal finish on Super Tuesday. He then went on to endorse Mr Biden for the nomination.

There has been no indication on if Ms Warren will endorse Mr Biden or Mr Sanders. On Wednesday, Mr Sanders said he spoke over the phone with the candidate about her campaign but she gave no hint on if she would leave the race or give him an endorsement.

It is unlikely her support would go behind the vice president, though, given he is more moderate position compared to her progressive views. Ms Warren has also been outspoken that she does not believe the candidate could take on the sitting president in November.

“I respect his years of service,” she said Monday night during a rally in Los Angeles. “But no matter how many Washington insiders tell you to support him, nominating their fellow Washington insider will not meet this moment.”

She added Mr Biden wanted to "restore the world before Donald Trump".

If she endorses anyone it would likely be Mr Sanders, and the support could give him a boost after a number of more moderate candidates put their backing behind the vice president. But Ms Warren has also been vocal about her fellow progressive in the last few months of the race to distance herself from his policies.

Now with the senator out of the race, Mr Sanders could pick up her more progressive voters as he attempts to play catch-up with Mr Biden with the number of delegates still available.