That is SUCH garbage! The headline doesn’t match what that email said. He congratulated her and ask if he could help. Is that really and endorsement. Maybe he wanted to help her by mowing her lawn or doing accounting work for her, since she was going to be busy. He may have sent the same email to the guy who got the nomination for the Communist party.
My guess is, the reporter is making stuff up and putting it to print. You either put all your faith and trust in the media which is largely brain dead liberals or you put all your trust in Hoffman. If you asked me, the media is the spoiler in this election, not Hoffman.