Mayors are under increasing pressure to embrace the leading progressive candidates
PHILADELPHIA — In the shadow of Joe Biden’s campaign headquarters sitting across from City Hall, Elizabeth Warren has snagged endorsements from Mayor Jim Kenney, District Attorney Larry Krasner, and two incoming City Council members here.
“Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have been very willing to involve themselves in local issues. That’s unusual.”But not all of the shift can be explained by newly elected Democrats. Michael Gianaris, the New York Senate deputy majority leader who represents western Queens, raised eyebrows in local political circles when he backed Sanders this year after endorsing Clinton in 2016.
“You’re watching an election cycle in which presidential candidates have reason to want the endorsements of big-city progressive D.A.s because they’re having to answer questions at debates like, ‘Do you think people who are actually incarcerated should vote?'” said Krasner. “That’s not even a question you would have heard eight years ago."
“Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have been very willing to involve themselves in local issues. That’s unusual,” said Larry Ceisler, a longtime Philadelphia political observer working in public relations. “In past elections, it was only the mayor who presidential candidates would call and say, ‘How about an endorsement?’”Democratic operatives and elected officials in Philly said Warren’s aides in particular have made an aggressive play for endorsements.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who backed Clinton in the 2016 primary and looked hard at a presidential bid himself in 2020, has not yet endorsed a candidate. In December, he flew to Iowa to participate in a forum he helped put together in which mayors interviewed some of the presidential contenders. He has personal relationships with several of them, according to his aides.
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