Florida Sen. Marco Rubio has suspended his presidential bid after a poor showing in his home state of Florida. He entered the race in July of 2015 as the third GOP candidate to seek the White House.

Rubio, 44, emphasized his foreign policy credentials and tried to cast the election as a choice between a new generation of leaders and the Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton, who is 68.

He outlasted fellow Floridian and former Gov. Jeb Bush, but failed to break free from the pool of candidates trying to knock off leader Donald Trump.

“So from a political standpoint, the easiest thing to have done in this campaign is to jump on all the anxieties, to make people angry to make people more frustrated. But I chose a different route and I’m proud of that,” he said on Tuesday night. “That would have been the easiest way to win but that is not what is right for America. The politics of resentment leave us not just a fractured party but a fractured nation.”

In 2010, the Tea Party carried me to office, Rubio said, adding that those same voters gave the GOP the Senate in 2014. But nothing much changed, Rubio said, leading voters to be frustrated.

One of the most memorable moments of the GOP debates was the early February confrontation between New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Rubio. Rubio was accused by Christie of memorizing responses to questions. Bush also attacked the Florida junior senator for his lack of executive experience.

Rubio said at his announcement that the American Dream is slipping from the grip of  too many families.  “Too many of our leaders and their ideas are stuck in the 20th century,” he said during his announcement speech. “They’re busy looking backward, so they do not see how jobs and prosperity today rely on our ability to compete in a global economy.”

Rubio was elected to the United States Senate in 2010. He is one of three Latino senators. Rubio is of Cuban heritage, and he used his position in the GOP to fight against alienating Latino voters.

However, he opposed the president’s move to remove Cuba from the list of states sponsoring terrorism. He also came out against the Obama administration’s efforts to restore ties with Cuba.

Rubio won GOP votes in Minnesota, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.