DES MOINES, Iowa - Democrat Tom Vilsack, the former Iowa governor who built a centrist image, is abandoning his bid for the presidency after struggling against better-known, better-financed rivals, two officials told The Associated Press on Friday.
Vilsack was scheduled to make a formal announcement later in the day. The officials spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity even though they were pre-empting his statement.
Vilsack, 55, left office in January and traveled to early voting states, but he attracted neither the attention nor the campaign cash of his top-tier rivals — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) and John Edwards.
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