List of Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign endorsements
Officials below the level of State Legislator and all other individuals and entities are listed only if they are the subject of a Wikipedia article or are otherwise clearly notable.
Sanders for President
Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator from Vermont
(2007–present)
U.S. Representative from Vermont's at-large congressional district (1991–2007)
Mayor of Burlington (1981–1989)
Inactive
February 19, 2019
April 8, 2020[1]
Burlington, Vermont[2] Washington, D.C.[3]
Not me. Us.
Feel the Bern
This is a list of notable individuals and organizations who have voiced their endorsement of Bernie Sanders' campaign for the Democratic Party's nomination for the 2020 U.S. presidential election before he dropped out of the race on April 8, 2020.
U.S. senator from Vermont (1975–2023), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee (2017–2023), President pro tempore of the United States Senate (2012–2015), Chair (2007–2015, 2001–2003) and Ranking Member (2015–2017, 2003–2007, 1997–2001) of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Chair (1987–1995) and Ranking Member (1995–1997) of the Senate Agriculture Committee[4][5]
Patrick Leahy
Attorney General of Minnesota (2019–present), U.S. Representative from MN-5 (2007–2019), Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (2011–2017), Deputy DNC Chair (2017–2018)[5]
Keith Ellison
Member of the Executive Council of New Hampshire from District 2 (2017–present), candidate for Governor of New Hampshire in 2020[18]
Andru Volinsky
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont (2017–present), candidate for Governor of Vermont in 2020 (VPP)[5]
David Zuckerman
Mayor of Clarkston, GA (2014–present), 2020 candidate for Senate, Democratic National Committee member[108]
Ted Terry
Megan E. Green, DNC member from Missouri
[5]
Ray McKinnon, DNC member from North Carolina
[5]
Susie A. Shannon, DNC member from California
[5]
Jeri D. Shepherd, DNC member from Colorado
[147]
DNC member from Virginia, human rights attorney, Senior Policy Counsel at the Center for Victims of Torture[5]
Yasmine P. Taeb
Terry L. Tucker, DNC member from Colorado
[147]
Curtis Wylde, DNC member from Missouri
[5]
activist, actor, teacher, and Democratic candidate for New York State Senate's 25th District[176]
Jabari Brisport
ironworker, activist, and Democratic nominee for U.S. Representative from WI-01 in 2018[128]
Randy Bryce
candidate for Queens County District Attorney in 2019 and criminal justice reform activist[178]
Tiffany Cabán
executive director of National Nurses United and California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee[179]
Bonnie Castillo
community organiser, journalist, hip-hop activist, and Green Party of the United States vice-presidential nominee in 2008[181]
Rosa Clemente
activist and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement.[182] (co-endorsement with Elizabeth Warren)
Patrisse Cullors
legal scholar, human rights attorney, activist, and writer
Noura Erakat
environmental activist and co-founder and co-executive director of U.S. Youth Climate Strike (daughter of Ilhan Omar)[188][189]
Isra Hirsi
2018 nominee for Governor of Maryland, president and chief executive officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (2008–2013)[190]
Ben Jealous
gun control activist and March for Our Lives co-founder (previously endorsed Andrew Yang)[191]
Cameron Kasky
trans woman activist and community leader for transgender rights, Stonewall riots veteran, and former executive director of the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project[197]
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
American environmentalist, economist, writer, executive director of Honor The Earth, and Green Party of the United States vice-presidential nominee in 1996 and 2000[63]
Winona LaDuke
political activist and Democratic candidate for Virginia's 28th Senate district in 2019 and Virginia's 1st congressional district in 2020[201]
Qasim Rashid
political activist and former executive director of Arab American Association of New York[202]
Linda Sarsour
spiritual leader, author, political activist, and 2020 presidential candidate[206]
Marianne Williamson
NUHW – , representing 15,000[428] (co-endorsement with Elizabeth Warren)
National Union of Healthcare Workers
Endorsements in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
News media endorsements in the 2020 United States presidential primaries
List of Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign endorsements
List of Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign endorsements
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