Clinton's campaign bragged about endorsements she didn't have

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published 21 October 2015

Democrat Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday that she "has support of 50 current and former black mayors," which would be a big endorsement get — if it were true. Unfortunately for Clinton, three of those mayors followed up with their own announcements that they had not yet actually decided to endorse Hillary.

Wilmington, Delaware Mayor Dennis Williams made his un-endorsement on Twitter, while two Texan mayors — San Antonio's Ivy Taylor and Bexar County Commissioner Tommy Calvert — clarified that though they've spoken positively of Clinton, they have not yet made a decision about 2016.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.