Bernie Sanders has won the DFA endorsement!

I just got off the phone with Neil Sroka, Democracy for America’s Media Director, and I’m extremely pleased to report—just moments prior to him getting on his national press conference call—Bernie Sanders has won the DFA’s official endorsement for President of the United States! (That is all. I’ll leave it up to other Kossacks to provide the details!)

I don’t know about you, but I’m truly thrilled by this!

UPDATE 12:10PM EST (12-17-15):

From Kossack Adam B, in the comments—

Via Buzzfeed:

Officials for the group said more than 270,000 members voted in DFA’s online election. Sanders got 87.9% of the vote, while Clinton earned 10.3%. (O’Malley got a paltry 1.1%, just a bit more than “no endorse,” which got .08%.)

UPDATE 12:20PM EST (12-17-15):

From Politico (h/t to Kossack clonal antibody, in the comments):

By Gabriel Debenedetti Politico 12/17/15 12:00 PM EST

Bernie Sanders picked up his second significant progressive endorsement of the day on Thursday afternoon, and this one might sting for Hillary Clinton.

Democracy For America, the one million-member liberal group that helped stoke much of the pro-Elizabeth Warren movement early in the 2016 election cycle, is backing the Vermont senator after he earned 88 percent of the over 270,000 votes cast in the group’s online membership poll, compared to 10 percent for Clinton, and 1 percent for both Martin O’Malley and the option not to endorse at all.

The move is significant given DFA's high threshold for endorsing. The group has existed since 2004, and no candidate had ever previously made it past the two-thirds mark necessary for the nod — which will come with fundraising help and an on-the-ground organization in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada, DFA executive director Charles Chamberlain wrote in an email due to go to supporters on Thursday.

“This isn’t the first time DFA has stood side by side with Bernie Sanders. Our organization has been working with him to make progressive change happen for years,” wrote Chamberlain, announcing the results after all three candidates wrote DFA members letters asking for their support in recent weeks. “Together, we’ve run issue campaigns focused on raising the minimum wage, overturning Citizens United, and stopping the job-killing Trans-Pacific Partnership — and he has regularly chatted with our members on several DFA Live conference calls over the years...

Politico feebly attempts to downplay Sanders’ surge over the past 7-10 days, and the fact that the primary states are where the action is, and where the polling matters at this juncture, with phrases such as the following: “...Such backing could be read as a much-needed sign of life for the Sanders campaign...”

But, the fact remains that Sanders truly is surging—again, and when it really matters—less than seven weeks before primary voting commences in Iowa and (then) New Hampshire. To Politico’s credit, they note in the article: “...The nod makes Thursday an extra-sweet day for the underdog Sanders, coming just hours after news broke that he also picked up the endorsement of the Communication Workers of America…”

Over the past 10 days, Sanders Campaign news that has been very under-reported throughout the MSM also includes the following (for more on this MSM malpractice, checkout Kossack Egberto Willies’ post: “Huge week for Bernie Sanders gets little coverage”):

--Working Families Party endorsement of the Sanders Campaign;

–The number of Sanders campaign donors has surpassed the 2,000,000 mark, essentially trouncing the record for number of campaign contributors at this early point in a campaign;

–a WMUR/CNN poll in New Hampshire showing him substantially (10 pts.) ahead of Clinton in the Granite State;

–a Selzer poll (widely recognized as the gold standard in Iowa polling) showing him within striking distance (9 pts.) of Clinton in Iowa.