Beto O’Rourke will endorse Joe Biden for the 2020 Democratic presidential bid, reports The New York Times.
O’Rourke, the former Texas Representative who dropped out of the presidential race in November, will be the third former Democratic candidate to push for Biden. Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, on Monday endorsed Biden after dropping out of the race.
O’Rourke plans to appear with Biden in Dallas on Monday night with Klobuchar and Buttigieg, according to two Democratic officials familiar with his plans.
The move comes as Democrats work to slow Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont who currently stands as the front runner, ahead of Super Tuesday when voters in 14 states cast ballots on the most consequential day of the presidential nominating contest.
“It is no surprise they do not want me to become president,‘’ Sanders said Monday night during an appearance on CNN.
Harry Reid, a former Senate majority leader from Nevada, and Susan E. Rice, a former national security adviser to President Barack Obama, also endorsed Biden.
Sanders finished in the top two in all early four states and holds on to a polling advantage in numerous delegate-rich states that will vote Tuesday.
“Look, we are taking on the establishment. And I fully understand — no great surprise to me — that establishment politicians are not going to endorse us,” Sanders told reporters in Salt Lake City, just minutes before news broke that Klobuchar was ending her campaign and planning to support Biden.
“The establishment will rally around the establishment candidate,” he said. “That’s the simple reality.”
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