DELAWARE COUNTY TIMES / AP: …The party’s endorsement does not guarantee a nomination, but it can plug a candidate into fundraising and volunteer networks and provides a useful campaign slogan as the party-endorsed candidate.
[Former Chairman Jim] Burn, however, suggested that [Katie] McGinty’s strong establishment support, including backing by Wolf and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, of Nevada, was not translating well to the party’s ground-level activists and workers.
“You would think that it’d mean that she should have gotten two-thirds,” Burn said. “She should have shut (Joe Sestak) out.” … (more)
