"His influence would be extraordinary if he should endorse somebody," said Don Fowler, a longtime South Carolina Democratic activist and former national party chairman who is backing Mrs. Clinton.
It can choose to "cross-endorse" somebody else's — and this provision of New York's election law has given minor parties just enough clout to play a modestly major role.
Asked yesterday about Jack E. Robinson, the only Republican candidate to collect enough signatures to take on Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Bush said at Logan International Airport in Boston, "It's hard to endorse somebody I've never heard of".
He's already indicated he's leaning toward endorsing somebody, you know he could do a lot of damage to somebody and I suspect it's not gonna be to the candidate that he's leaning towards.
Kickstarter, a crowdfunding website, has "curated pages" where potential backers can find projects endorsed by somebody they trust, rather than just following the wisdom of crowds.
"We will endorse someone".
You're not going to support me because somebody from J Street endorsed me?' " Wexler added, "AIPAC is still by a factor of a hundred to one the premier lobbying organization for the Jewish community.
"If you want to defeat Hillary Clinton, you need to have somebody who has an organization," said Walker, a Republican who has endorsed Cruz.
"New York County endorsed Scott back in April of this year," Mr. Wright explained, "and we probably would have backed him even if he were running against somebody else, but at that point no one was running against him".
James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte and Eleanor Roosevelt endorsed her efforts.
