Joe Biden’s list of endorsements just got some major names to place at the top
Photo: Ron Jenkins/Getty Images . Prior to his Monday night rally in Dallas, reports emerged that Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Beto O’Rourke — three moderate candidates who dropped out of the 2020 race — would support the former vice-president as he consolidates support following his win Saturday in South Carolina.
At the rally, Amy Klobuchar — who suspended her campaign on Monday — spoke first with a call for unity: “If we spend the next four months dividing money and going at each other, we will spend the next four years with Donald Trump.” The Minnesota senator then endorsed Biden as the candidate who could unite Democrats: “He could bring our country together and build the coalition of that fired up Democratic base, as well as independents and moderate Republicans.
After concluding his stump speech, Biden thanked former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke and welcomed him to the stage. O’Rourke called Trump an “existential threat” to democracy, and lauded Biden as “kind, caring, and empathetic.” Though O’Rourke once asserted that Biden was a “return to the past” and said that the country “can do better,” the former representative, gesticulating and sweating, celebrated him as the candidate to defeat Trump.
As New York’s Ed Kilgore notes, the picture on Super Tuesday looks quite competitive — though the Sanders campaign has outspent and out-staffed Biden in most of the states voting on Tuesday: “As of Monday night, FiveThirtyEight’s projections have Joe Biden favored in Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and American Samoa., with Sanders favored in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Utah, and Vermont.
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