Justin Amash will not run as a third-party candidate for president

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Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI.) will not run as a Libertarian third-party candidate in the 2020 presidential race, weeks after announcing an exploratory committee towards the race to the White House.

In a tweet Wednesday afternoon, Amash said that after “much reflection I’ve concluded that circumstances don’t lend themselves to my success as a candidate for president this year, and therefore I will not be a candidate.”

After much reflection, I’ve concluded that circumstances don’t lend themselves to my success as a candidate for president this year, and therefore I will not be a candidate.

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 16, 2020

Previously, Amash became the first member of the Republican Party to say that Trump committed impeachable offenses. Later, Amash announced he was leaving the Republican Party in a Washington Post op-ed after he had become “disenchanted with party politics.”