Bobby Jindal presidential campaign, 2016
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| Campaign | U.S. presidential election, 2016 |
| Candidate |
Bobby Jindal Governor of Louisiana (2008–2016) |
| Affiliation | Republican Party |
| Status | Announced: June 24, 2015 Suspended: November 17, 2015 |
| Headquarters | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Key people | Timmy Teepell (campaign manager) Wes Anderson (chief pollster) |
| Receipts | US$1,442,463 (2015-12-3) |
| Slogan | Tanned, Rested, Ready |
| Website | |
| www.BobbyJindal.com | |
The 2016 presidential campaign of Bobby Jindal, the 55th Governor of Louisiana, was announced on June 24, 2015. His candidacy for the Republican nomination for President of the United States in the 2016 election came after several years of speculation following the 2012 election. Jindal is the first Indian American and third Asian American to run for president of the United States.
On November 17, 2015, Jindal announced that he was suspending his campaign for president.
Jindal came to national prominence during the 2003 election for Louisiana governor.
In what Louisianans call an open primary (but is technically a nonpartisan blanket primary), Jindal finished first with 33 percent of the vote. He received endorsements from the largest newspaper in Louisiana, the New Orleans Times-Picayune; the newly elected Democratic mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin; and the outgoing Republican governor, Mike Foster. In the general election, Jindal faced the outgoing lieutenant governor, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Lafayette, a Democrat. Despite winning in Blanco's hometown, he lost many normally conservative parishes in northern Louisiana, and Blanco prevailed with 52 percent of the popular vote.
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