Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination on Sunday evening.

The decision comes one day after Buttigieg finished in fourth place in the South Carolina primary with just over 8% of the vote. Exit polls showed only 3% of Black voters, a key Democratic voting bloc, cast their ballots for the former mayor.

Today is a moment of truth, Buttigieg told a crowd of hometown supporters in South Bend on Sunday. Our path has narrowed to a close we have a responsibility to consider the effect of remaining in this race any further. Our goal has always been to help unify Americans to defeat Donald Trump and to win the era for our values.

Buttigiegs campaign said he was leaving the race to better help the effort to unseat President Donald Trump, noting that Buttigieg didnt want to further splinter the vote by proceeding with his campaign.

The then-mayor formally announced his presidential bid in April last year, when he was virtually unknown on the national stage, and steadily climbed to the top of a crowded Democratic field in the months that followed.