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Report: Edwards to suspend campaign

The candidate will hold a press conference today.

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John and Elizabeth Edwards will go before the cameras in just a few minutes, but MSNBC says it has the story already: Edwards, sources tell the network, is “suspending his campaign for the presidency, and may drop out completely, because his wife has suffered a recurrence of the cancer that sickened her in 2004, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.”

By Tim Grieve

Tim Grieve is a senior writer and the author of Salon's War Room blog.

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