Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez refuses to back Bernie Sanders for 2020 election run against Trump

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59. Its not entirely clear from what I have read.

David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s former chief strategist, told the group they should expect no such directive. Mr. Axelrod confirmed in an interview that he briefed the gathering, recalling: “They asked me about Obama endorsing. I said, ‘I don’t imagine he will.’”

Mr. Axelrod said he had been sharing his own perspective, not speaking as an official Obama emissary. But his forecast matches what Mr. Obama has told friends and likely presidential candidates in private: that he does not see it as his role to settle the 2020 nomination, and prefers to let the primary unfold as a contest of ideas. Michelle Obama, the former first lady, also has no plans to endorse a candidate, a person familiar with her thinking said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/us/politics/obama-2020-democratic-candidates.html

Those are comments from friends not directly from Pres O. I think he still might endorse depending on how things play out.