VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has endorsed Joe Biden's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination after the former vice president's victory in the South Carolina primary.
McAuliffe said Saturday on CNN that he had been considering the decision but wanted to see who "wins the heart of the African American community." A majority of South Carolina Democratic voters are black.
McAuliffe gives Biden another establishment Democratic endorsement. A former national party chairman and prodigious fundraiser, McAuliffe joins Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine in endorsing Biden ahead of their state's Super Tuesday primary next week.
Dorothy McAuliffe, Terry's wife, already had endorsed and campaigned for Biden.
The Biden campaign hopes that the slew of high-profile endorsers provides some counter to billionaire Mike Bloomberg's advertising deluge that Biden cannot compete with. Bloomberg's central case has been that Biden is too weak to win the nomination and defeat President Donald Trump in November.