HOUSTON — Former vice president Joe Biden brought his resurgent campaign to delegate-rich Texas on Monday, gaining the backing of one-time rivals Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar amid an avalanche of endorsements as he sought to turn the momentum of his big South Carolina primary victory into success on Super Tuesday.
The day before voters here and in Massachusetts, California, and 11 other states head to the polls, moderate Democrats publicly rallied behind Biden in hopes he could stop progressive Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the race’s front-runner, from amassing an insurmountable lead in delegates needed to win the nomination. Biden’s campaign sent out news releases almost hourly all day touting new endorsements from state and federal lawmakers, party elders such as Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader, and influential Democratic figures including Victoria Reggie Kennedy, the widow of the Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
“I am here heart and soul,” Biden told an energetic crowd at Texas Southern University Monday, receiving the loudest cheers as he touted his strong alignment with minority communities and his ties to former president Barack Obama. “I take nothing for granted, nothing at all. I am asking you for your vote.”
“You got it,” a woman shouted from the overlook of the second floor.
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