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Joe Biden's campaign is spinning the New York Times' endorsement snub with a viral clip from the newspaper's video footage.

"We got the endorsement that actually equals votes!" Biden campaign manager Greg Schultz tweeted Monday, along with the video.

In the recording, a female elevator operator in the Times building woman gushes over Biden, 77, during a ride to his interview with the paper's editorial board, saying that she loved him and that he was her "favorite."

"You got a camera? [When] we get out, we'll take one, OK?" Biden told her, offering to snap a selfie with the supporter.

"You are awesome. Oh my God," she replied.

The interaction has been watched more than 180,000 times on Twitter as of Monday afternoon, more than the videos made for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar combined.

On Sunday night, the New York Times hedged by endorsing Warren, 70, and Klobuchar, 59, for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, two women candidates from opposing points on the center-left side of the political spectrum.

"Amy Klobuchar has emerged as a standard-bearer for the Democratic center. Her vision goes beyond the incremental. Given the polarization in Washington and beyond, the best chance to enact many progressive plans could be under a Klobuchar administration," the board wrote. "Three years into the Trump administration, we see little advantage to exchanging one over-promising, divisive figure in Washington for another. Good news, then, that Elizabeth Warren has emerged as a standard-bearer for the Democratic left."

Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the front-runners in the Democratic primary, did not make the board's final four contenders, instead rating former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker. Booker, 50, dropped out of the race earlier in January.