Obama, who taped an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday, which is set to air Thursday night, told the host he applauded Sanders’ campaign while acknowledging Clinton will be the party’s nominee. Bernie Sanders Thursday morning, paving the way for Obama to make a public endorsement of his former secretary of state.
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A much-anticipated meeting between President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders came and went Thursday without any apparent impact on the Vermont senator’s plans to remain in the race.
“My hope is, is that over the next couple of weeks, we’re able to pull things together”, Obama said, recalling his own bitter campaign rivalry with Clinton in 2008.
Joking that he was “pretty good in arithmetic”, Sanders acknowledged the results, which had positioned Clinton (with her lead among elected delegates and overwhelming support from superdelegates) to claim a historic victory at a rally in Brooklyn.
Second, in national polls, Mr. Sanders is a stronger candidate against the Republican candidate Donald Trump than Ms. Clinton.
Sanders said he had congratulated Clinton and looked forward to meeting with her in the future.
“Donald Trump would clearly, to my mind and I think a majority of Americans, be a disaster as president of the United States”, Sanders said.
Trump and Clinton have already started targeting each other, with Trump questioning her trustworthiness and Clinton saying he’s temperamentally unfit to hold the nation’s highest office.
Warren, 66, has been one of the Democrats’ most outspoken critics of Trump, 69, and her priority is helping to defeat the presumptive Republican nominee in the November 8 presidential election, the sources said.
Arizona Republican party chairman Robert Graham confirmed today that Trump will return to the Valley on June 18th.
Sanders, who met with Obama at the White House earlier yesterday, said afterwards he would work with Clinton to defeat Trump. “I have seen her judgment”.
“He pushed the party and challenged them”, he said.
“Weakened by the self-inflicted wounds of her email controversy and her inability to generate enthusiasm in major parts of the Democratic coalition, Clinton has been forced to spend precious time, money, and energy fighting Sanders right to the end”.
Sanders also thanked Obama and Vice President Biden for not putting their “thumb on the scales” during the Democratic primary, though offered no review of his hour-and-a-half-long meeting with Obama. One prospective donor, John Catsimatidis, a grocery store magnate and former NY mayoral candidate, said Trump stressed his love for the country. He lost four of six contests in Tuesday’s primaries and Hillary Clinton is now the Democrats’ presumptive nominee. The session is aimed at unifying the Democratic Party for a general election brawl with Donald Trump.
Aides to Mr Obama, who remains highly popular among Democrats, have said he is eager to leave the sidelines and join the fray against Mr Trump. Reid has not called for Sanders to quit, but he said last week that “sometimes you have to give up”. He said he hoped to meet with Clinton soon to discuss their common goal.
The Clinton campaign tweeted back, “Delete Your Account”.
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Showing signs of preparing to quit his campaign, Sen.
