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Updates On The Richardson Endorsement
A couple quick Richardson updates.
First, here's an explanation from Clinton spokesperson Phil Singer of Mark Penn's suggestion yesterday that Bill Richardson's endorsement of Obama was "not significant":
Everyone in the Clinton campaign has the utmost respect for Gov. Richardson and many of us know him well. Mark was referring to the fact that Gov. Richardson didn’t endorse prior to his state’s primary and certainly didn’t mean to imply anything else. The Clinton campaign continues to seek the support of all Latino voters and leaders in the remaining primaries and caucuses.
Meanwhile, Richardson offered some new comments clarifying whether he thinks Hillary should drop out of the race, as he seemed to suggest yesterday. Check out what Richardson said about this in a new interview:
“I’m not going to advise any other candidate when to get in and out of the race,” Mr. Richardson said after appearing in Portland with Mr. Obama. “Senator Clinton has a right to stay in the race, but eventually we don’t want to go into the Democratic convention bloodied. This was another reason for my getting in and endorsing, the need to perhaps send a message that we need unity.”
Richardson's stance seems to be that Hillary has a right to stay in for now, but just not too much longer, and certainly not all the way until the convention, lest it imperil the Democratic Party's chances in the fall.
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