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Democrat Warren secures endorsement from ex-rival Castro in White House bid

By Amanda Becker

 

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Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren speaks during a town hall event in Davenport, Iowa, U.S. January 5, 2020. REUTERS/Daniel Acker

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren won the backing on Monday of former rival Julian Castro, putting the only Latino candidate in a once historically diverse 2020 presidential field in her corner just weeks ahead of the first nominating contest.

 

Castro last week became the latest Democratic candidate to end a White House bid. There are now 14 candidates vying to take on President Donald Trump in November 2020.

 

Castro's endorsement of Warren comes as the U.S. senator from Massachusetts is entering the final critical weeks before the nominating contests kick off on Feb. 3 in Iowa. He could become a high-profile campaigner on Warren's behalf as the contest moves on to states such as Nevada, the first with a sizable bloc of Hispanic voters.

 

"Elizabeth and I share a vision of America where everyone counts. An America where people⁠ - not the wealthy or well-connected - are put first. I'm proud to join her in the fight for big, structural change," Castro wrote on Twitter.

Castro, 45, will make his debut with Warren at an event in Brooklyn, New York on Tuesday.

 

When Castro left the 2020 race, the former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, and former Housing Department chief during the Obama administration said in a video message to supporters that he had "determined that it simply isn't our time."

 

Though Warren, 70, remains in the top tier of contenders, she trails former Vice President Joe Biden and fellow U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont in national opinion polls. Her fundraising also dipped in the final quarter of 2019, when she brought in millions less than Sanders and Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana.

 

In a video Castro posted along with his endorsement announcement, he and Warren discuss the 2020 race over tea in her kitchen. "You did so many things in this campaign, and it continues to matter," Warren told him.

 

(Reporting By Amanda Becker; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Bill Berkrot)

 

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Just now, blazes said:

 

Isn't this the guy who insisted that abortion rights should be guaranteed for trans females (aka men)???

 

Just what the US needs, a politician who failed his anatomy courses in High School....

That was possibly the best line ever in Politics! Offers new potential for politics! Ovarian Bigots! Womb Fascists! The government should pay to implant foetii into Trans Men! Maybe some dude wants triplets! No? Discrimination!

 

What a clown! Endorsing another clown! :clap2::cheesy:

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It's not always nice being cynical but could be a play for a VP slot. 

 

I have no idea who will be nominated. 

 

Warren is a pretty good bet and if it's a man he'll likely pick a woman VP. 

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5 hours ago, wombat said:

your wasting your money lady

Well if she fails badly in New Hampshire, her neighbor, then yes, it would be foolish for her to continue.

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She isn’t popular at all in Massachusetts how could she ever be Pres. It starts off with her weak annoying voice and ends with her pretty much abandoning her Senatorship right about after her second term started. This made a lot of people hate her. On popular talk radio stations like WBZ in Boston she brings in call after call after call of negative comments. The hosts think she stinks, the callers don’t like her at all and tons of callers are from New Hampshire 30 miles away!  Even locals right in Cambridge Mass have negative things to comment about her. She is so past tense. She won’t ever be Senator again either. Good riddance!! Poco

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8 hours ago, wombat said:

your wasting your money lady


It’s not her money, and it’s the only thing she can legally spend it on. 
 

I wonder what her room service bills look like...

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