Sanders campaign endorsed by MoveOn.org

With a record-setting 78.6 percent of 340,665 votes cast by the MoveOn membership, Senator Bernie Sanders has won MoveOn.org Political Action’s endorsement for president with the largest total and widest margin in MoveOn history. Requiring 67% of their members votes to secure MoveOn’s endorsement, Barack Obama was the first candidate to earn the organization’s full support during a presidential primary eight years ago. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who was urged to run for president by many activists on the party’s left.

The political action committee said it will mobilize its millions of members in support of Sanders, including 43,000 in Iowa and 30,000 in New Hampshire.

The endorsement is just the second MoveOn has announced during a Democratic primary. It began as an email group working to get signatures on a petition to get Congress to censure Clinton and “move on”.

MoveOn leaders say they are “poised to mobilize thousands of volunteers, make thousands of phone calls to potential voters, and recruit more small-dollar donors to support Sanders. If we’re going to push back against the rising oligarchy in our country, we need people like Bernie Sanders representing us in government”. “In our endorsement vote exit poll, one of the words MoveOn members most frequently used to describe him was ‘integrity.’ He isn’t beholden to lobbyists and corporate interests, and it shows in the positions he’s taken, from fighting to break up too-big-to-fail Wall Street banks, to tuition-free public higher education, to expanding Social Security, to fighting for bold solutions on climate change and a $15-hour minimum wage”. “He had the foresight to vote against authorizing the war in Iraq in 2002, was a strong supporter of the nuclear deal to prevent war with Iran, and has been a voice of reason against escalation in Syria and other conflicts around the world”. 2016 Democratic presidential campaign. In 2012, members voted to endorse Obama in his re-election bid. No Democratic candidate reached the threshold for an endorsement in 2004. After the Democratic National Convention this summer, MoveOn will work to unite progressives around widely popular progressive priorities to help the eventual Democratic nominee keep a Republican out of the White House.

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