Primary candidates endorsements

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We have had 21 of the 29 democratic primary candidates drop out.

These 7 former primary candidates have endorsed a remaining candidate.

Julian Castro endorsed Warren
Bill de Blasio endorsed Sanders
Mike Gravel endorsed Sanders & Gabbard
Seth Moulton endorsed Biden
Tim Ryan endorsed Biden
Joe Sestak endorsed Klobuchar
Marianne Williamson endorsed Sanders

The other 14 former primary candidates have not yet endorsed any of the 8 candidates still in the democratic primary race.

Michael Bennet, Cory Booker, Steve Bullock, John Delaney, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, John Hickenlooper, Jay Inslee, Wayne Messam, Beto O'Rourke, Richard Ojeda, Deval Patrick, Eric Swalwell, Andrew Yang

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1. Mike Gravel endorsed Sanders and Gabbard?

Whoa, I wasn't even sure he was still alive!

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2. He's about to turn 90

I didn't even know he was running. Apparently, the idea came from a couple of teenagers:

On March 19, 2019, Gravel announced that he was considering running in the 2020 Democratic primaries. He said, "The goal will not be to win, but to bring a critique of American imperialism to the Democratic debate stage." An exploratory committee was formed, with filing a statement of organization with the Federal Election Commission on that same day. The filing was the idea of a group of teenagers, led by David Oks and Henry Williams, inspired by the podcast Chapo Trap House, and done with Gravel's consent (after a week spent convincing him of the idea's merits), but without his involvement. Intrigued by the group's commitment to amplifying his long-held policy goals, Gravel (who would be 90 years, 8 months old on Inauguration Day in 2021) said he planned to meet with them in April, and to discuss a 2020 White House run with his wife. On April 2, 2019, Gravel filed to officially run for office.[229][230] The campaign called itself the "#Gravelanche".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Gravel#2020_presidential_campaign

We're becoming as kooky as the Republicans.

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3. I had no idea

I suppose very few people did though.