Tom Daschle to Endorse Sen. Obama
The Politico blog is reporting that former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle “has committed his support to Barack Obama.” According to the post:
“I certainly expect that he will be supporting Barack,” said Leo Hindery, a Daschle friend who backs John Edwards. “Senator Obama could have no better ally and advisor than Tom Daschle.”
Two of Daschle’s former top staffers, Pete Rouse and Steve Hildebrand, already work for Obama, but Daschle himself brings, along with a broad popularity among Democrats, a set of long friendships and relationshps [sic] with Democrats around the country that can help compensate for Obama’s recent arrival on the national scene.
UPDATE: The AP reports on Daschle’s endorsement:
Sen. Barack Obama…won the endorsement Wednesday of former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who said the White House hopeful “personifies the future of Democratic leadership in our country.”
Daschle said Obama has a “great capacity to unify our country and inspire a new generation of young Americans, just as I was inspired by the Kennedys and Martin Luther King when I was young.”
February 8th, 2008 at 11:17 am EST
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