Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island Democratic Presidential Primaries
These states represent one of the biggest primary days in the Northeast. For the Democrats, Hillary Clinton is generally leading in these states, though Connecticut and Pennsylvania appear competitive and Bernie Sanders may be able to win Rhode Island. Following is a list of significant endorsements and then the order I expect each candidate to finish in each state.
A quick note on endorsements, these are culled from Wikipedia, campaign websites, and the media and may not be totally comprehensive. They’re my best shot. My endorsement lists follow a certain order: current Federal Cabinet members, former Federal Cabinet members, current statewide officeholders, current members of the U.S. House of Representatives, current state Senators, current State House members, current local officeholders, current DNC or RNC members, other prominent nonelected officials and businesspeople, newspapers, prominent civic organizations, and former elected officials in the same order as current ones. All politicians should be assumed to be members of the same party as the person they are endorsing unless otherwise indicated. Business and university affiliations are listed for identification purposes only and do not necessarily constitute an endorsement.
Connecticut
Hillary Clinton: Governor Dan Malloy, Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman, Attorney General George Jepsen, Senator Richard Blumenthal, Senator Chris Murphy, Representative Joe Courtney, Representative Rosa DeLauro, Representative Elizabeth Etsy, Representative Jim Himes, Representative John Larson, State Senator Ted Kennedy, Jr., State Representative Terry Adams, State Representative Angel Arce, State Representative Andre Baker, State Representative Pat Billie Miller, State Representative Larry Butler, State Representative Juan Candelaria, State Representative Ernie Hewett, State Representative Matt Lesser, State Representative Brandon McGee, State Representative Bruce Morris, State Representative Chris Rosario, State Representative Bobby Sanchez, State Representative Hilda Santiago, State Representative Charlie Stallworth, State Representative Toni Walker, Mayor Joseph Ganim (Bridgeport), Mayor Luke Bronin (Hartford), Mayor Daniel Drew (Middletown), Mayor Toni Harp (New Haven), Mayor Harry Rilling (Norwalk), Mayor David Martin (Stamford), Mayor Neil O’Leary (Waterbury), Mayor Scott Slifka (West Hartford), Deputy Mayor Shari Cantor (West Hartford), First Selectman Rudy Marconi (Ridgefield), DNC Member Nick Balletto, DNC Member Michael Cacace, DNC Member Nancy DiNardo, DNC Member Dorothy Mrowka, DNC Member John Olsen, Professor Jacob Hacker (Yale University), The Day, Hartford Courant, Former Senator Chris Dodd, Former Representative Barbara Kennelly, Former Mayor Bill Finch (Bridgeport)
Bernie Sanders: State Senator Gary Holder-Winfield, State Representative John Hennessy, State Representative Robyn Porter, State Representative Peter Tercyak, State Representative Edwin Vargas, UNITE HERE CT, IBEW Local 1228, Former Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio (New London)
Delaware
Hillary Clinton: Governor Jack Markell, Senator Tom Carper, Senator Chris Coons, Representative John Carney, Mayor Dennis Williams (Wilmington)
Bernie Sanders: No significant endorsements
Maryland
Hillary Clinton: Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez, Senator Ben Cardin, Senator Barbara Mikulski, Comptroller Peter Franchot, Representative Elijah Cummings, Representative John Delaney, Representative Donna Edwards, Representative Steny Hoyer, Representative Dutch Ruppersberger, Representative John Sarbanes, Representative Chris Van Hollen, State Senator Joanne Benson, State Senator Guy Guzzone, State Senator Cheryl Kagan, State Senator Delores Kelley, State Senator Nancy King, State Senator Susan Lee, State Senator Richard Madaleno, State Senator Thomas Middleton, State Senator Thomas Miller, Jr., State Senator Shirley Nathan-Pulliam, State Senator Catherine Pugh, State Delegate Vanessa Atterbeary, State Delegate Ben Barnes, State Delegate Mark Chang, State Delegate Bonnie Cullison, State Delegate Eric Ebersole, State Delegate Diana Fennell, State Delegate David Fraser-Hidalgo, State Delegate Shelly Hettleman, State Delegate Terri Hill, State Delegate Carolyn Howard, State Delegate Adrienne Jones, State Delegate Ariana Kelly, State Delegate Marc Korman, State Delegate Benjamin Kramer, State Delegate Clarence Lam, State Delegate Brooke Lierman, State Delegate Maggie McIntosh, State Delegate Aruna Miller,State Delegate Edith Patterson, State Delegate Shane Pendergrass, State Delegate Kirill Reznik, State Delegate Samuel Rosenberg, State Delegate Carlo Sanchez, State Delegate Frank Turner, State Delegate Jay Walker, State Delegate Mark Chang, Executive Ike Leggett (Montgomery County), Council President Craig Rice (Montgomery County), Councilman Calvin Ball, III (Howard County), Councilwoman Nancy Floreen (Montgomery County), Councilman Sidney Katz (Montgomery County), Councilman George Leventhal (Montgomery County), Councilwoman Nancy Navarro (Montgomery County), Treasurer Nancy Kopp, DNC Member Maria Cordone, DNC Member Bel Leong-Hong, DNC Member Yvette Lewis, DNC Member Bruce Morrison, DNC Member Gregory Pecoraro, DNC Member Carol Pensky, DNC Member Karen Pope-Onwukwe, Executive Director Dana Beyer (Gender Rights Maryland), Baltimore Jewish Times, The Baltimore Sun, Former Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown, Former Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Former Attorney General Doug Gansler, Former Representative Kweisi Mfume, Former State Senator Jennie Forehand, Former State Senator Sidney Kramer, Former State Senator Gloria Lawlah, Former State Delegate Aisha Braveboy, Former State Delegate Melanie Griffith, Former State Delegate Jolene Ivey, Former State Delegate Heather Mizeur, Former State Delegate David Valderrama, Former State Delegate Kris Valderrama, Former Mayor Ellen Moyer (Annapolis), Former Mayor Sheila Dixon (Baltimore), Former DNC Member Michael Cryor, Former DNC Member Lanny Davis, Former DNC Member Vera Hall, Former DNC Member Terry Lierman, Former DNC Member Hans Riemer, Former DNC Member Wayne Rogers, Former Secretary of Higher Education Shaila Aery, Former Secretary of Aging Gloria Lawlah
Bernie Sanders: State Delegate Ana Sol Gutierrez, DNC Member Heather Mizeur, Activist Benjamin Jealous, Reverend Jamal Bryant, Professor Lester Spence (Johns Hopkins University)
Pennsylvania
Hillary Clinton: Governor Tom Wolf, Senator Bob Casey, Jr., Attorney General Kathleen Kane, Representative Matt Cartwright, Representative Chaka Fattah, State Senator John Blake, State Senator Lisa Boscola, State Senator Jim Brewster, State Senator Jay Costa, State Senator Andy Dinniman, State Senator Larry Farnese, State Senator Wayne Fontana, State Senator Vincent Hughes, State Senator Shirley Kitchen, State Senator Daylin Leach, State Senator John Sabatina, State Senator Judy Schwank, State Senator Christine Tartaglione, State Senator Rob Teplitz, State Senator Sean Wiley, State Senator Anthony Williams, State Senator John Wozniak, State Senator John Yudichak, State Representative Leslie Acosta, State Representative Bryan Barbin, State Representative Kevin Boyle, State Representative Donna Bullock, State Representative Thomas Caltagirone, State Representative Michael Carroll, State Representative Tonyelle Cook-Artis, State Representative Dom Costa, State Representative Mary Jo Daley, State Representative Margo Davidson, State Representative Tina Davis, State Representative Madeleine Dean, State Representative Dan Deasy, State Representative Pam DeLissio, State Representative Frank Dermody, State Representative Maria Donatucci, State Representative Michael Driscoll, State Representative Dwight Evans, State Representative Flo Fabrizio, State Representative Dan Frankel, State Representative Edward Gainey, State Representative John Galloway, State Representative Neal Goodman, State Representative Mike Hanna, State Representative Pat Harkins, State Representative Patty Kim, State Representative Stephen Kinsey, State Representative Thaddeus Kirkland, State Representative Leanne Krueger-Braneky, State Representative Joe Markosek, State Representative Robert Matzie, State Representative Joanna McClinton, State Representative Daniel McNeill, State Representative Sid Michaels Kavulich, State Representative Ed Neilson, State Representative Eddie Day Pashinski, State Representative Harry Readshaw, State Representative Lynwood Savage, State Representative Michael Schlossberg, State Representative Peter Schweyer, State Representative Brian Sims, State Representative Mike Sturla, State Representative Curtis Thomas, State Representative Rosita Youngblood, Executive Rich Fitzgerald (Allegheny County), Mayor Joseph Sinnott (Erie), Mayor Jim Kenney (Philadelphia), Mayor William Peduto (Pittsburgh), Councilman Bobby Henon (Philadelphia), Councilwoman Kenyatta Johnson (Philadelphia), DNC Member Richard Bloomingdale, DNC Member Penny Gerber, DNC Member Amanda Green-Hawkins, DNC Member Marcel Groen, DNC Member Gerald Lawrence, DNC Member Nancy Mills, DNC Member Ian Murray, DNC Member Evie Rafalko McNulty, DNC Member Sylvia Watson, DNC Member Sylvia Wilson, Chairman of the Board of Trustees David Cohen (University of Pennsylvania), Equality Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Daily News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Former Governor Ed Rendell, Former Representative Allyson Schwartz, Former State Representative John Cordisco, Former State Representative Ronald Donatucci, Former State Representative Michael Gerber, Former State Representative T. J. Rooney, Former Mayor Linda Thompson (Harrisburg), Former Mayor Michael Nutter (Philadelphia), Former Mayor James Barrett McNulty (Scranton), Former City Councilwoman Stephanie Singer (Philadelphia), Former City Councilwoman Marian Tasco (Philadelphia), Former Secretary of Environmental Protection Kathleen McGinty, Former General Counsel Leslie Anne Miller
Bernie Sanders: State Senator Arthur Haywood, III, Mayor John Fetterman (Braddock), Professor Robert Brulle (Drexel University), Professor Linda Joy Holtzman (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College), Professor Mordechai Liebling (Reconstructionist Rabbinical College), Professor Steven Hahn (University of Pennsylvania), Professor Anne Norton (University of Pennsylvania), Professor Adolph Reed, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania), Professor Rogers Smith (University of Pennsylvania), Philadelphia Tribune, Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, Teamsters Local 1-L
Rhode Island
Hillary Clinton: Governor Gina Raimondo, Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea, General Treasurer Seth Magaziner, Senator Jack Reed, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Representative David Cicilline, Representative Jim Langevin, State Representative Grace Diaz, State Representative Joseph McNamara, Mayor Jorge Elorza (Providence), DNC Member Edna Mattson, DNC Member Frank Montanaro, Professor Glenn Loury (Brown University), The Providence Journal, Former Mayor Joseph Paolino, Jr. (Providence)
Bernie Sanders: State Senator James Sheehan, State Representative Aaron Regunberg, UNITE HERE RI, IBEW Local 2323
Result Predictions
Connecticut
1st: Bernie Sanders
2nd: Hillary Clinton
Delaware
1st: Hillary Clinton
2nd: Bernie Sanders
Maryland
1st: Hillary Clinton
2nd: Bernie Sanders
Pennsylvania
1st: Hillary Clinton
2nd: Bernie Sanders
Rhode Island
1st: Bernie Sanders
2nd: Hillary Clinton
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