Every morning, when 25-year-old Megan Barney drives to work, she passes Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren s house.

Barney sometimes feels a little bit like a stalker, often poking her head outside of the window during her drive to see if her senator is around. But on Tuesday morning she didnt have to peer. There was a big crowd outside, snaking all the way down the block toward the nearest polling place, cheering on Warren, who was on her way to vote.

Barney felt heartened by that mornings energy when she cast her own vote for Warren that evening, wearing the Nasty Woman T-shirt she had made to wear to work on the day of President Donald Trumps inauguration in 2017.

I felt really hopeful, Barney said. It was a happy moment.

A few hours later, that hope deflated as the Super Tuesday results rolled in. Warren didnt win a single state, coming in third even in her home state of Massachusetts.

On Thursday, outlets reported Warren planned to drop out of the presidential race.

I will not be running for president in 2020 but I guarantee I will stay in the fight, she told press outside of her house in Cambridge, Mass on Thursday afternoon. One of the hardest parts of this is all of those pinky promises and all of those little girls who are going to have to wait four more years. Thats going to be hard.

There had been hope from the Warren camp that she could pick up steam on Super Tuesday and win a chunk of delegates. She had two strong debate performances in which she eviscerated former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg for past sexist comments and sexual harassment lawsuits. She had released a string of policy proposals on marijuana legalization, border communities and farmworkers, and an emergency plan to deal with the coronavirus. But her disappointing Super Tuesday showing fueled already-existing calls for her to drop out and for her supporters to get in line behind fellow progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), lest they spoil the race for him.

But to many Warren supporters, the idea that the Massachusetts senator is the tool of some amorphous establishment or stayed in the race simply to pull votes from Sanders is false and insulting.

Supporters say they found Warren to be the most compelling candidate for a variety of reasons. Many also expressed pain at the vitriol they have seen directed at their preferred candidate, which feels hard to completely separate from the fact that Warren is a woman in a presidential field that has become older, whiter and more male over the last few months.