Ariél Zangla is reporting for the Daily Freeman 19th Congressional District candidate, Democrat Antonio Delgado, has been endorsed by former President Barack Obama. Delgado was one of 81 Democratic candidates nationwide to get the nod, Aug. 1. “Today I’m proud to endorse such a wide and impressive array of Democratic candidates — leaders as diverse, patriotic and big-hearted as the America they’re running to represent,” Obama said on Twitter. Delgado and Anna Kaplan, a Democrat running for state Senate in Seventh District, were the only New York candidates endorsed by the former president. Delgado, of Rhinebeck, is seeking to unseat first-term U.S. Rep. John Faso, a Republican from Kinderhook, in the Nov. 6 election. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.