Amy Klobuchar ending bid for 2020 presidential nomination

Klobuchar finished third in the New Hampshire primary but her campaign struggled to gain momentum, according to NPR. She finished Saturday's South Carolina primaries with just 3% of the vote, NPR reported.

The three-term senator had one of this cycle’s more memorable campaign launches, standing outside in a Minnesota snowstorm last February to tout her “grit” and Midwestern sensibilities. Klobuchar argued that her record of getting things done in Washington and winning even in Republican parts of her state would help her win traditionally Democratic heartland states like Wisconsin and Michigan that flipped in 2016 to give Donald Trump the presidency.

She was hoping to own the moderate lane of a Democratic field that grew to some two dozen candidates. But that got much tougher when Biden joined the race in April, starting as a front-runner and remaining there.

Klobuchar’s exit comes less than 24 hours after South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg left the race for the White House. Five candidates remain in the running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination: Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.