Daywatch: Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss receives endorsement in congressional run

Daywatch: Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss receives endorsement in congressional run

Good morning, Chicago. Evanston Mayor and former state legislator Daniel Biss’ progressive credentials got a boost this morning with an endorsement from U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren in Illinois’ increasingly crowded 9th Congressional District Democratic primary race. Warren, a three-term senator from Massachusetts and briefly a front-runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, announced she was backing Biss in a statement shared with t…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren backs Biss in congressional race - Evanston RoundTable

Mayor Daniel Biss speaks at Evanston’s No Kings Day rally on June 14. Credit: Joerg Metzner U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has endorsed Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss in his bid to join her in Congress and represent Illinois’ 9th Congressional District, becoming the biggest — and furthest — politician to weigh in on the race to date. In a statement issued Wednesday morning by the Biss campaign, Warren described the mayor as a “relentless fight…