Watch Pete Buttigieg’s full speech after quitting 2020 presidential race South Bend, Indiana

Saying that “the path has narrowed to a close,” former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced Sunday night that he is suspending his 2020 presidential campaign.

“At this point in the race, the best way to keep faith with those goals and ideals is to step aside and help bring our party and our country together,” Buttigieg told supporters is his hometown of South Bend. “So tonight I am making the difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the presidency.”

“I will no longer seek to be the 2020 Democratic nominee for president, but I will do everything in my power to ensure that we have a new Democratic president come January,” he said.

Here is my favorite quote in the entire speech: “We sent a message to every kid out there wondering if whatever marks them out as different means they are somehow destined to be less than, to see that someone who once felt that exact same way can become a leading American presidential candidate with his husband at his side.”