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Source: TPM
Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a list of candidates he was endorsing ahead of the 2018 elections.
Included on the list were some well-known Democrats whod already advanced past their states primary race, such as California gubernatorial candidate c and Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
Obama endorsed the former director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray, to be Ohios next governor, and J.B. Pritzker, the brother of Obama administration Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, to be Illinois next governor.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-endorses-long-list-of-candidates-ahead-of-2018-elections
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Notice the lack of a verified identity checkmark on the "ThePresObama" tweet. It's not his account.
PoliticAverse
Aug 2018
#2
Notice that all the stories about these endorsements refer to them as the "first wave"...
George II
Aug 2018
#22
Any notables he didn't endorse that should have been in the "first wave"? n/t
PoliticAverse
Aug 2018
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