Obama issues first wave of 2020 Texas endorsements ☑️
Barack Obama is throwing his weight behind more than a dozen Texas Democratic candidates vying to flip congressional and state House seats.
The former president released his first wave of 2020 endorsements on Monday in a Medium post that included endorsements for candidates around the country.
In Texas, eight congressional candidates were endorsed. They include Sima Ladjevardian (TX-02), Wendy Davis (TX-21), Candace Valenzuela (TX-24), Gina Ortiz Jones (TX-23), Sri Preston Kulkarni (TX-22), Adrienne Bell (TX-14), and incumbents Lizzie Fletcher (TX-07) and Colin Allred (TX-32).
Obama also endorsed 19 candidates running in the Texas House, now only nine seats away from a Democratic majority.
Read more: https://texassignal.com/obama-issues-first-wave-of-2020-texas-endorsements/
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