Behold the face of a man who will not be your 45th president for many reasons, chief among them: He’s quitting the race.

Paul announced the inevitable Wednesday morning, saying in a statement that it had been “an incredible honor” just to not be nominated. According to the Washington Post’s Robert Costa, he alerted key donors sometime within the last 24 hours.

We are pretty sure CNN broke the story.

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