Former President Barack Obama‘s attorney general is wading into the Washington, D.C., mayoral race with an endorsement for Democratic candidate Kenyan McDuffie.

Eric Holder, the former top prosecutor and current chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, is the latest establishment Democrat to back the more centrist McDuffie, who has followed the political track taken by current Mayor Muriel Bowser late in her term. McDuffie’s bid contrasts with his socialist opponent, councilwoman Janeese Lewis George of Ward 4, who has emulated New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani‘s campaign style.