Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Friday the she will not run for another term in office.
WBAL-TV reported that Charm City’s current mayor said that she thought a lot about the decision.
"I wanted to spend the remaining 15 months of my term focused on the city's future and not my own," Rawlings-Blake said. "I have chosen to govern rather than campaign, and I hope the public sees it that way."
Her decision comes just a day after a judge ruled that trial for the police officers charged in the Freddie Gray case would remain in Baltimore and the same week that the city reached a 6.4 million settlement with Gray’s family.
Rawlings-Blake never said that she was dropping out of the race because she didn’t think she could win, however, that is what many have speculated.
One potential candidate that could be very popular in the upcoming race is Nick Mosby. He is the husband of state attorney for the city Marilyn J. Mosby, who is the prosecuting the officers involved in Freddie Gray’s arrest last April.
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