Congratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
Bill Shaheen leads group of longtime NH Democratic leaders backing Biden.. .Major Endorsement,😎🎨
MAJOR ENDORSEMENTS
FOR BIDEN. Joe Biden’s campaign Thursday will roll out a slate of established New Hampshire Democratic leaders who have joined his camp and are making their endorsements public here for the first time. Several of them previously endorsed former candidates.
Bill Shaheen is on board with the former vice president. The longtime Democratic National Committeeman and husband of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen gave his highly sought-after endorsement to Biden because, he said, “We need a president and a Senate who can bring dignity back to our country and immediately command respect on the world stage. Joe Biden can do both.”
Joining Shaheen with Biden are former state Senate President Sylvia Larsen, former state Democratic Party Chair Joe Keefe, longtime campaign strategist and former Cory Booker senior adviser Jim Demers and former U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes, who had been the state campaign director for former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson.
Also with Biden are Hodes’ wife, Peggo Horstmann Hodes, former state Sen. Peggy Gilmour, former Carroll County Democratic Chair Chris Meier and Manchester attorney and activist Maureen Manning.
The new Biden supporters also include three Manchester elected officials – Alderman-at-Large Dan O’Neil and Ward 10 Alderman Bill Barry, both of whom had backed U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan’s brief run for president, and Ward 2 School Board member Kathleen Kelley.
For many months, Bill Shaheen acted as an unofficial greeter and ambassador of the first-in-the-nation primary, walking with many candidates through downtown Dover and introducing them to local voters and activists.
He will now bring his formidable influence both locally and nationally to bear for Biden.
“Americans are worried, and the world is watching,” said Shaheen, who has been active in primary campaigns since Jimmy Carter came to New Hampshire as a little-known Georgia governor in the 1976 cycle.
“It is time for us to rise up and fight. Our ancestors are calling us to join this battle, so I will do it gladly. Winning the White House is only half of the battle. In order to change our course, we must win the Senate.”
Jeanne Shaheen is seeking a third term in the Senate, and Democrats view holding her seat as critical to flipping the Senate from Republican to Democratic control. She made it clear almost a year ago, when she announced her reelection bid, that she would not make an endorsement in the presidential primary and will “focus on my own race.”
“One of the major motivating reasons I went with Cory Booker so early was I always felt his message and career were built on unity and bringing people together,” Demers, who co-chaired President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns in New Hampshire, said in an interview.
“That became a central question I looked at after he dropped out and I believe Joe Biden checks that box as well. He’s demonstrated he can work with a lot of different factions and different people. Unifying the country is a goal of his as well.”
Larsen is a former 20-year state senator who served 12 years as leader of the Senate Democrats, four of them as Senate president. She has been a friend of Biden for many years and was a leader in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaigns.
Larsen hosted house parties for several of the current presidential candidates.
"After careful consideration of our many talented candidates, I believe Joe Biden is the best candidate to lead us forward to a moral, compassionate America which restores our faith in the American dream of equal opportunity, access to healthcare, innovation in industry, and international stability," she said.
Keefe, who chaired the NHDP in the late 1990s and early 2000s and twice ran for the U.S. House, endorsed former candidate Kamala Harris last summer. A longtime defender of New Hampshire’s status as the nation’s first primary, he led a party task force 15 years ago that tried to develop strategies to push back on efforts at the national party level to dilute the role of the primary.
Go Joe.....😎🎨
https://www.wmur.com/article/nh-primary-source-bill-shaheen-leads-group-of-longtime-nh-democratic-leaders-backing-biden/30634779#
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join the revolution!!
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Undecided
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
If I were to vote in a presidentialprimary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
