[Joe 6-pack]

"On a side note, I love the word choice candidates use when they are quitting their quest for the White House. The word “suspended” is a temporary state. If a student is suspended from school, it means that at some point, the school will allow the student to return. So when Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Julian Castro, and everybody else announced that they were “suspending their campaign,” does that mean they will later resume? This is straight-up word-smithing. In fact, it’s over."

IIRC, suspending a campaign is a technicality under FEC rules. A suspended campaign can continue to raise funds, ostensibly to pay debts incurred.

[nwrep]

Yes. Most of us here know about this technicality but this idiot Sheriff who has ostensibly spent a lifetime in politics is unaware of this well known fact and parades his abject ignorance before all.

[ealgeone]

McCain was the first to use the term that I can recall.