--- title: Read Why Bobby Jindal Is Quitting the Presidential Race description: On Tuesday, Governor Bobby Jindal announced he is suspending his campaign and released the following statement, explaining why he is quitting the Presidential race. "I... canonical: https://time.com/4117508/why-bobby-jindal-is-quitting-presidential-campaign/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-17T23:48:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:43:06.874Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Why Bobby Jindal Is Quitting the Presidential Race og:description: On Tuesday, Governor Bobby Jindal announced he is suspending his campaign and released the following statement, explaining why he is quitting the Presidential race. "I... og:url: https://time.com/4117508/why-bobby-jindal-is-quitting-presidential-campaign/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Why Bobby Jindal Is Quitting the Presidential Race twitter:description: On Tuesday, Governor Bobby Jindal announced he is suspending his campaign and released the following statement, explaining why he is quitting the Presidential race. "I... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Read Why Bobby Jindal Is Quitting the Presidential Race by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Nov 17, 2015 11:48 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Nov 17, 2015 11:48 PM UTC On Tuesday, Governor Bobby Jindal announced he is suspending his campaign and released the following statement, explaining why he is quitting the Presidential race. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4117508/why-bobby-jindal-is-quitting-presidential-campaign/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4117508/why-bobby-jindal-is-quitting-presidential-campaign/"},"headline":"Read Why Bobby Jindal Is Quitting the Presidential Race","datePublished":"2015-11-17T23:48:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:43:06.874Z","description":"On Tuesday, Governor Bobby Jindal announced he is suspending his campaign and released the following statement, explaining why he is quitting the Presidential race. \"I...","url":"https://time.com/4117508/why-bobby-jindal-is-quitting-presidential-campaign/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4117508/why-bobby-jindal-is-quitting-presidential-campaign/","name":"Read Why Bobby Jindal Is Quitting the Presidential Race"}}]}] ```