On September 8, 2018 in Anaheim, California, President Barack Obama expresses himself during a campaign in favor of candidates for the California Congress.(Photo: Ringo H.W. Chiu, AP)

WASHINGTON – Former President Barack Obama announced Monday the endorsement of 260 other Democrat candidates in mid-term elections in November, bringing to around 350 the number of supporters he has. received this year.

Obama focuses on the tight races of the governor, the US Senate, the US House and the state legislatures in which he believes his support will make a significant difference. He added that the candidates "are a movement of younger, more diverse and more feminine citizens than ever before".

Included in this wave of recommendations is a host of candidates who exceed the limits. Among them:

• Representative Kyrsten Sinema, who is organizing a race against GOP representative Martha McSally, will become Arizona's first woman to be elected to the US Senate.

• Jahana Hayes, who will likely be the first Black woman in Connecticut – with the first black Democrat in the state – elected to Congress.

• Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, the first candidate of the main African-American governing parties in Florida.

• Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley, who is about to become the first black woman elected to the Massachusetts Congress.

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York activist, who could be the youngest woman elected to Congress at 28.

• Democrat Christine Hallquist of Vermont is the first openly transgender candidate in the country to be appointed governor by a major party.

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Obama also supported two Democrats in the Senate on Monday on the ten candidates for re-election in the states that voted for Trump: Sense. Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin and Bill Nelson from Florida. He has already participated in a fundraiser for Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri.

"These are Americans who do not run against something, but for something," said Obama in his statement. They run to develop opportunities and restore the honor and compassion that should be the very essence of public service. "

The annotations are based on a first series of 81 mid-term endorsements he announced in August and several appearances in the countryside last month.

Last month, Obama launched a virulent attack on President Donald Trump and the Republicans and called on Americans to go to the polls in November to "restore some common sense to our politics."

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