Democratic Primary Endorsement Tracker

[Torrain]

You are missing the biggest potential endorsement for Nevada.

Aye, but Reid isn't publicly endorsing until the caucus is done. Besides, he's clearly pulling for Warren

[Beet]

The chair of the California Latino caucus endorsed Warren:

https://twitter.com/LorenaSGonzalez/status/1179891877316661248

[Skye]

https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1181674544194568195

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1181674544194568195

I thought she endorsed Biden months ago?

[Skye]

https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1181674544194568195

I thought she endorsed Biden months ago?

This is the formal endorsement *shrugs*

[Biden Stans Are Cringelords]

https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1181674544194568195

How in the hell can anyone who's watched Biden's debate performances endorse him? Can you imagine him on stage with Trump after another year of cognitive decline?

[2016]

RIP Kamala Harris. She gets snubbed by her own Senate Colleague from Cali!

[Gracile]

AOC expected to endorse Sanders:

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1184299645507424256

[JGibson]

And Omar and Tlaib as well.

https://twitter.com/GregJKrieg/status/1184303508188794880

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

And Omar and Tlaib as well.

https://twitter.com/GregJKrieg/status/1184303508188794880

This isn’t “news”. Everyone expected this.

[redjohn]

And Omar and Tlaib as well.

https://twitter.com/GregJKrieg/status/1184303508188794880

This isn’t “news”. Everyone expected this.

...it's not news because you expected it? Ooookay. Huge endorsements for Sanders, AOC's endorsement means more than probably any other Dem besides Obama.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

And Omar and Tlaib as well.

https://twitter.com/GregJKrieg/status/1184303508188794880

Deplorables gonna be deplorable

[Landslide Lyndon]

I thought congresspeople endorsing before the primary is rigging.

[TrendsareUsuallyReal]

Hitching their wagons to a sinking vessel I see

[Eraserhead]

Hitching their wagons to a sinking vessel I see

They're just supporting the candidate they agree with the most on the issues. I know this seems crazy to some of you.

[Canis]

This will definitely help Bernie!

[VPH]

Bob Kerrey endorsed Biden today!
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/466165-former-nebraska-senator-endorses-biden

[GeneralMacArthur]

AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib are all superdelegates.

I, for one, am sick of superdelegates swinging the election with their endorsements.

When we talk about a rigged system... what we are talking about is a system where all-powerful superdelegates can override the will of the people by making endorsements before a single vote has been cast.  We are talking about a system where the party establishment chooses a candidate and expects the voters to fall in line.

[Sorenroy]

As someone who backed Sanders in 2016 and is still supporting him in 2020, I have no issue with individuals endorsing candidates. In fact, I’d rather people endorse then work from behind the scenes and pretend they’re not doing anything. The issue, to me, is much more about delegates working to overrule the role of voters. Which, for the record, I don’t think happened in 2016. Clinton had already won a majority of votes and delegates. The superdelegates just cemented who voters had already indicated.

[Beet]

Elizabeth Warren will return to Iowa later this weekend to a new raft of prominent endorsers, including former Lt. Governor Sally Pederson.

Twenty-four leaders from across Iowa announced their support for Warren today, adding to her growing list of endorsements in the lead-off caucus state where she now narrowly leads in the polls.

https://iowastartingline.com/2019/10/16/elizabeth-warren-lands-24-new-iowa-endorsements-after-debate/

[GeneralMacArthur]

Elizabeth Warren will return to Iowa later this weekend to a new raft of prominent endorsers, including former Lt. Governor Sally Pederson.

Twenty-four leaders from across Iowa announced their support for Warren today, adding to her growing list of endorsements in the lead-off caucus state where she now narrowly leads in the polls.

https://iowastartingline.com/2019/10/16/elizabeth-warren-lands-24-new-iowa-endorsements-after-debate/

Half of the people on that list are not "leaders"

Mike Kern, Southeast Dallas County Democrats chairman, Waukee
Phyllis Weeks, former Marion County Democratic Party chairwoman, Knoxville
Gini and Jim Jordan, former Cass County Democratic Party chairs, Atlantic
Mike Tramontina, former deputy state treasurer, Des Moines
Andy Roberts, labor leader, Des Moines
Zeb Beilke-McCallum, community activist, Urbandale
Amy Johnson, community activist, North Liberty
Sharon McDonald, community activist, Iowa City
Mei-Ling Shaw, community activist, Iowa City
Amanda Rex-Johnson, community activist, Des Moines
Mary and Arvid Oliver, community activist, Ankeny
Ron Rosmann, organic farmer, Harlan
Sarah Carlson, farm policy leader, Pleasant Hill
Kamyar Enshayan, farm policy leader, Cedar Falls

6 of these people are just activists.  Rosmann doesn't even try to pretend to be a "leader", he's just a farmer.  Carlson and Enshayan are listed as "farm policy leader"; in actuality Carlson is just a columnist at a think tank and Enshayan is a professor who has his own research grouplet.  Andy Roberts is listed as "labor leader" but his LinkedIn has him as just one of a dozen officers in his local union chapter.

C'mon Warren.  I mean good for her for getting people to endorse her but that's all these folks are -- people -- not "leaders" and not significant endorsements.  What's actually happened is she got 3 or 4 minor endorsements, including the former LtGov from 20 years ago, over the last couple weeks, and stacked them up with a bunch of random people to make a bigger number for the headline.

[They not like us]

Half of the people on that list are not "leaders"

People can be "leaders" in their community without being elected officials. This is a pedantic point that you would make to smear the reputation of people you've never met just because they support a political candidate you don't like.

[GeneralMacArthur]

Half of the people on that list are not "leaders"

People can be "leaders" in their community without being elected officials. This is a pedantic point that you would make to smear the reputation of people you've never met just because they support a political candidate you don't like.

So what counts as a significant endorsement?  If I organize a weekly poker night, am I a "leader"?  How about if I organize a bake sale for my local union chapter?

I don't think it's "pedantic" to point out that Warren is making a big deal out of seemingly random people endorsing her just to create a fake momentum narrative and the media is playing along with it.

Maybe you think I'm full of s**t and these endorsements do actually matter.  But if I'm right and "Ron Rosmann, organic farmer" really is just a random farmer, shouldn't she be called out on it?  Isn't that a bit dishonest?  Or would you prefer a world where the media can report "Biden announces endorsement of major Seattle-area leader" and it turns out it was just some guy on Atlas, and nobody can call him out for it?

[Beet]

Half of the people on that list are not "leaders"

People can be "leaders" in their community without being elected officials. This is a pedantic point that you would make to smear the reputation of people you've never met just because they support a political candidate you don't like.

So what counts as a significant endorsement?  If I organize a weekly poker night, am I a "leader"?  How about if I organize a bake sale for my local union chapter?

I don't think it's "pedantic" to point out that Warren is making a big deal out of seemingly random people endorsing her just to create a fake momentum narrative and the media is playing along with it.

Maybe you think I'm full of s**t and these endorsements do actually matter.  But if I'm right and "Ron Rosmann, organic farmer" really is just a random farmer, shouldn't she be called out on it?  Isn't that a bit dishonest?  Or would you prefer a world where the media can report "Biden announces endorsement of major Seattle-area leader" and it turns out it was just some guy on Atlas, and nobody can call him out for it?

It's not the Warren campaign. It's Iowa Starting Line saying they are leaders. Stop trying to cast aspersions on the Warren campaign.

I don't know if Ron Rosmann is a "leader" or not (to be pedantic), but he's certainly a cool guy:



“I was chastised by some people who said, ‘why did you come back, if you’re a college graduate?’ You’re supposed to leave the farm, leave rural areas to improve your life.” But Rosmann felt just the opposite; he stayed, in part, he said, because “you could make a difference in a small community” by sticking around...

Rosmann’s father was an early adopter when it came to using synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, but after his father passed away, Rosmann says he began experimenting with alternative methods, and by 1983 he decided to reverse course.

One of the major revelations came when he went to a field day at the farm of fellow Iowan Dick Thompson, who had eschewed conventional pesticides and fertilizers in the late ‘60s.

Three years later, in 1986, Rosmann joined Thompson as a founding board member of Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI), a nonprofit organization that has remained dedicated to these goals ever since, and has grown from around 50 farmers to more than 3,000.

https://civileats.com/2018/02/21/surrounded-by-big-agriculture-ron-rosmann-innovates-and-inspires/

[GlobeSoc]

Personally would have wanted her to make Warren shift a bit towards permanent mobilization in the sense that Bernie's rhetoric endorses, but I understand why she went Bernie.