Clinton to stop campaign Friday, aide says

Details of how and where she will announce her plans to drop out are being hashed out, the aide says.
By Peter Nicholas and Johanna Neuman
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

June 4, 2008

WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to announce Friday that she will either suspend or end her campaign for the presidency, an aide confirmed today.

Details of how she will make her plans public are still being hashed out, the aide said. She may make the announcement in New York or Washington.

Clinton made the decision after talking to donors and supporters from Congress and labor unions. She has not yet withdrawn from the race because she has been calling friends and allies, "wanting to touch as many of her supporters as she could," said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak for the campaign.

He added that he expected Clinton to campaign vigorously on behalf of the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee, Sen. Barack Obama.

On the day after clinching his party's nomination, Obama reached out to two groups that have concerns about his candidacy: Jewish Americans and Clinton's supporters.

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