 to Democrats who were calling for him to step down. He said, there was a process open to anyone who wanted to run. Only three people chose to challenge me. Now, left out of that statement is the fact that they pressured and arm-twisted everyone to stay out of the race. Of course, this is what they did as normal things as presidents do, but that was definitely done. He said, only three people chose to challenge me. One fared so badly that he left the primaries to run as an independent.