Do you honestly believe endorsement help/harm candidates?
If endorsements were so persuasive, why certain groups could endorse a candidate just for the purpose of destroying them, no?
FACT.
Endorsements are puff balls for the puffer uttering them. They get a little screen and camera time, ingratiate themselves a little to the endorsee, and are forgotten after a couple of news cycles.
Voters will conjugate that Chris and Trump have a few stylistic similarities, but that’s about it.