“Lots of leaders aren’t endorsing, and no candidate is a clear frontrunner,” John Sides, a professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, told Fortune. “I’m proud to say that the only reason that I had any hope in launching a long-shot campaign for Congress is because Bernie Sanders proved that you can run a grassroots campaign and win in an America where we almost thought it wasn’t possible,” Ocasio-Cortez said at the Sanders rally in New York.īut endorsements are looking a little different this year-and they may not even hold the same importance as they once did among a Democratic party that has shown little consensus thus far. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Ocasio-Cortez officially put her weight behind Sen. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Along with fellow “Squad” member Rep. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. He's also currently raising money for Hillary Clinton.Ĭopyright © 2016 NPR. He's a Democratic political consultant and former deputy White House spokesman for President Obama. But then sometimes people just come out and endorse you and you have no idea it's coming.īURTON: For example - (laughter) - for example, Bill Maher announced on his show that he was cutting a million-dollar check to Priorities, our super PAC. Every endorsement that's considered to be significant, there's a lot of time spent at the campaign figuring out how exactly you're going to roll it out. I imagine there are real conversations within campaigns about, all right, now we've got this endorsement how do we get our most bang for the buck in unrolling it?īURTON: Well, yeah. Other endorsements - Eric Garner's daughter endorsed Bernie Sanders.
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MARTIN: And finally, how much stagecraft is considered when you think about how to unroll a particular endorsement? I mean, Chris Christie, this is, like, coming as kind of a surprise. But I - you know, I don't think that, for the most part, congressional endorsements are that meaningful. I don't know that that had any real meaning behind it.
Other endorsements are, you know, Steve King endorsed Ted Cruz in Iowa. So that has meaningful and material impact. MARTIN: So endorsements don't matter unless they do.īURTON: You know, when Jeffrey Katzenberg endorsed President Obama, that was particularly meaningful because once he put his mind to it, he raised a great deal of money for President Obama. But when Ted Kennedy endorsed then-Senator Obama, you know, that was a monumental event that was important for the campaign in the sense that people all across the Democratic Party were given permission by Uncle Teddy to get behind this upstart candidate from Illinois who was doing politics in a different way than we had seen in a - ever, really.
But it didn't actually help him on the polls in South Carolina in any significant way. Every once in a while, they'll give you a great news cycle, which Marco Rubio got when Nikki Haley, governor of South Carolina, endorsed him. Now generally, endorsements I don't think necessarily matter. And for Chris Christie, it gives him an opportunity to be involved in the campaign. So having a big-name endorser like Chris Christie come on board gives him control of the news cycle. What do each of these men get, the endorser and the endorsee, specific to this Trump-Christie thing but also generally speaking?īURTON: Well, in this case, Trump came off of a battering in the debate. This is his way to still be relevant in the world and not have to just be governor of New Jersey, where he's not widely loved. But when you think about it, it actually makes a lot of sense. What do you make of that?īURTON: It's probably the only New York Times breaking news alert that I got on my phone where I actually exclaimed out loud when I saw it. MARTIN: First off, Donald Trump endorsed by Governor Christie. Bill, thanks for being with us.īILL BURTON: Thank you so much for having me. He's a former deputy White House spokesman under President Obama. So how does this happen? How do candidates and their staff get people to endorse their campaigns? We're joined now by a man who knows, Bill Burton.
On Friday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie came out and endorsed Republican front-runner Donald Trump.
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