Barack Obama is picking up the support of three superdelegates in the House on Wednesday.
Both Reps. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) and Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) were drawn to Obama’s message of unity in announcing their endorsements. Rep. Baron Hill (D-Ind.) will also endorse the Illinois senator on Wednesday, according to the Bloomington (Ind.) Herald-Times.
Braley, a freshman House member, noted the excitement Obama generated among voters in the Iowa caucuses.
“In this same spirit, I believe there’s one candidate for President who has the ability to unite our country and bring about the change we need,” he said in a statement.
Capps, a six-term congresswoman and chairwoman of the Democratic Women’s Working Group, said that she’s backing Obama because “he has made a call to the better angels of our nature.”
Capps acknowledged Hillary Clinton as a someone who would make “a great president” and whose election would fulfill “a life-long dream” for those who have fought for women’s rights. But she said that Obama’s message of unity won her over.
“He is challenging us to lift ourselves out of the ugliness that increasingly consumes Washington, where the heat of your argument counts for more than the light it should bring,” Capps said in a statement. “He is asking us to stand together as Americans and transcend the traditional lines that have so often divided us by party affiliation, economic status, gender, or race.”
Read more of Capps’s endorsement announcement after the jump.