He was secretive during the affair, of course, but he offered no deceptive spin when his racy photos and Facebook messages came to light.Why, then, should Mr Weiner fold his campaign?
One of the few exceptions to the rule of silence was the response of Representative Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio, who has few delegates but has not folded his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The hospitals, lacking money for a costly advertisement campaign, folded, according to people involved.
Likewise, her declaration, self-aggrandising and self-pitying, after her presidential campaign folded, that her run had put "eighteen million cracks" into "that highest, hardest glass ceiling".
When Dean's populist 2004 presidential campaign folded, many of its organizers channeled their energy into spawning a group called Democracy For America.
Successful or not, that campaign will fold after September 18th.
Baker's book about the campaign, Double Fold, "made me realise that I wasn't a librarian.
Some of the defectors will return to the fold as the election campaign illuminates UKIP's shaky policies and internal rifts.
But the United States Information Agency, which ran that campaign, was folded into the State Department in 1999, and over the last 10 years such programs have been severely reduced.
There has never been a case where a major party nominee quit a campaign (H. Ross Perot folded his 1992 third-party campaign in mid-July, then re-started it in October), but then Trump is a wholly unprecedented major candidate.
