US presidential hopeful Herman Cain has said he is suspending his attack for the Republican nomination.
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| Herman Cain made his announcement in his home city of Atlanta |
He abhorrent political and media burden on his ancestors in the deathwatch of "false" allegations of animal aggravation and a 13-year-long extra-marital affair.
"I am not traveling to be silenced and I'm not traveling away," he told supporters in his home city-limits of Atlanta, Georgia.
He said he would endorse addition applicant at a after date but gave no adumbration of area he would absolute his supporters to go.
Tweets of praise
On Friday Mr Cain discussed with his wife, Gloria, whether to columnist on with his campaign.
Last week, an Atlanta woman, Ginger White, 46, came advanced to affirmation she had a 13-year activity with Mr Cain.
Speaking to MSNBC on Thursday, Ms White denied they had been in love, saying: "It was a animal activity - as harder as that is for me to say."
While abnegation any advancement of an activity with Ms White, Mr Cain has accustomed allowance pay her account bills and expenses, and that his wife did not apperceive about the friendship.
The BBC's Marcus George, in Washington DC, says even afore the questions arose about Mr Cain's clandestine life, there were doubts about his diplomacy for tax ameliorate and his compassionate of adopted affairs.
The above pizza controlling went from abstruse longshot to absurd frontrunner to abridged fodder.
While Mr Cain's ratings slumped, abutment for above House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich has surged.
Mr Gingrich has now overtaken frontrunner Mitt Romney in some assessment acclamation on who should be the Republican applicant to claiming Barack Obama for the White House in November 2012.
Within account of his speech, battling Republican candidates - including Michele Bachmann and Mr Gingrich - had tweeted their acclaim for Mr Cain.
"Herman Cain provided an important voice. His account & activity generated amazing activity for the bourgeois movement," Michele Bachmann tweeted.
Mr Gingrich's cheep said: "I am appreciative to apperceive Herman Cain and accede him a acquaintance and I apperceive he will abide to be a able articulation for years to come."
Tea Party
Mr Cain fabricated his advertisement afore the alternation of state-by-state contests, accepted as primaries and caucuses, begins next ages in Iowa to to accept the Republican nominee.
The above Godfather's Pizza arch controlling - who has never won an acclamation - was propelled by bourgeois Tea Party abutment to the foreground of the Republican acreage in October.
Portraying himself as a business-savvy, anti-establishment outsider, he captured the spotlight with his aloof agreeableness and addictive 9-9-9 tax ameliorate proposal.
But supporters were aswell abashed if he fabricated ambagious comments about aborticide and abominably fumbled a catechism on Libya action in a recorded interview.
Next month, voters in Iowa will activate the action of allotment a Republican presidential applicant for 2012.
Mr Cain said the allegations adjoin him had taken a assessment on his family, but added: "I am at peace."
"I am suspending my presidential attack because of the connected distraction, the connected aching acquired on me and my family," he told supporters at what had been billed as the aperture of his attack headquarters.
"These apocryphal and beginning allegations abide to be spinned in the media and in the cloister of accessible assessment so as to actualize a billow of agnosticism over me and this attack and my family," he said.
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