CAMPAIGN 2000- The Michigan Daily - Friday, March 10, 2000 - 5 McCain announces withdrawal The Washington Post SEDONA, Ariz. - Sen. John McCain ended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination yesterday with an offer of his "best wishes" but not hip endorsement of George W. Bush and a warning to his party to heed his call to reform the political system or risk slipping into "the mists of history." "I love my party, it is my home," McCain said in reaffirming his commitment to the GOP and his intention not to bolt to the Reform Party or lead an independent political movement in the fall general election. McCain did not make his support for the Texas governor contingent on Bush's willing- ness to adopt campaign finance reform and other McCain themes as his own. But he made clear that he will continue to voice those themes, which attracted support from large numbers of independent and even Democratic voters who could hold the balance of power in November. "Ours is the party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Reagan," McCain said. "That is good company for any American to keep." "But' he added, "I am also dedicated to the necessary cause of reform and I will never walk away from a fight for what I know is right and just for our country. As I said throughout the campaign, what is good for my country is good for my party. Should our party ever abandon this principle, the American people will rightly aban- don us and we will surely slip into the mists of history, deserving the allegiance of none." With is wife, Cindy, by his side, McCain spoke in a visually stunning setting, high on a bluff overlooking the Verde Valley, with the region's distinctive, snow-capped red rock mountain peaks forming the backdrop. To the side, a small cluster of his senior campaign aides stood togeth- er. Some of them appeared near tears. Technically, McCain said he was only "sus- pending" his campaign as he awaits the next move by Bush, whose presumptive claim to the nomination was badly shaken by the Arizona senator's surprising 19-point victory in the Feb. I New Hampshire primary. But McCain aides made clear that this was the end of the Arizona senator's always long-shot and sometimes mad- cap quest for the presidency. "I think he was clear about his intentions,' said Howard Opinsky, a McCain campaign spokesman. "I think everybody understands that this is the end of the campaign for him." Shortly after McCain's speech, Bush issued a statement congratulating his rival for "fighting a good fight," but made only a general endorse- ment of McCain's call for reform. "I know the competition has made me a better candidate," Bush said. "I know the competition is going to help us win the White House come November." w AP PHOTO Former senator Bill Bradley adjusts his car radio yesterday after driving home to Montclair, N.J., for the last time under U.S. Secret Service protection. Braidley endoeaes £3ore but willnot give up delegates AP PHOTO Arizona Sen. John McCain pauses while reading a statement to the media announcing the suspension of his presidential campaign in Sedona, Ariz., yesterday. The Baltimore Sun WEST ORANGE, N.J. - A jour- ney that began optimistically Sept. 8 in the bucolic small town of Crystal City, @., ended dejectedly yesterday in the suburbs of New York when Bill Bradley withdrew from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination and threw his support to his former foe, Vice President Al Gore. Despite his pledge of support, the former New Jersey senator still clearly felt the wounds of his bruising nomi- nation fight with Gore. He refused to met he word "endorse," and he called the "distortions and negativi- ty" of Gore's attacks. I hope he runs a better campaign," Bradley quipped. But the issues Bradley championed - universal access to health care, gun control, an end to child poverty and fundamental campaign-finance reform - would be addressed far more effec- tively by a Democrat in the White House than by a Republican, he said. *e vowed to keep those issues front and center in the run-up to November, in part by keeping delegates he won during the primaries aligned with his campaign. That way, Bradley believes, lie will have some influence at the Democratic convention in August. The former sen- ator said he would not be a candidate for vice president on Gore's ticket. "We have been defeated," Bradley told a hotel ballroom packed with staff and well-wishers. "But the cause for which I ran has not been - the cause of trying to create a new politics for this country, the cause of trying to fulfill our special promise to the nation - that cannot be defeated by one or a hundred defeats: Bradley did not win a single prima- ry or caucus, despite having soared in the polls through the fall and despite raising more money than the vice pres- ident. Yet Bradley proclaimed that his campaign had helped shape an agenda for the White House. He said he had forced Gore to aggressively champion campaign- finance reform by challenging the vice president on the issue. Gore's embrace of the issue has put him in a position to secure the White House in November by winning over some of the orphaned, independent- minded voters who flocked to Sen. John McCain, said Bradley's commu- nications director. Anita Dunn. 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