And the Sanders supporters who now say they would vote for Clinton in the fall, 70% say it’s because they don’t like Trump, and not because they like Clinton.
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Sanders also vowed to foster party unity to take on Republican nominee Donald Trump.
President Obama, Vice President Biden and Elizabeth Warren finally broke their “a long primary is healthy, I’m not endorsing” thing and got behind Clinton on Thursday. Both Trump and Clinton had speeches on Friday during which they went after each other, and we still have five more months of this – hooray!
Curious about how Obama, Warren and Sanders really feel about the 2016 Democratic nominee?
“Let there be no mistake: Senator Sanders, his campaign and the vigorous debate that we’ve had about how to raise income, reduce inequality, increase upward mobility, have been very good for the Democratic Party and for America”, said Clinton at a rally in NY. “And that is just one of the many reasons why he will never be president”, Warren said in the scathing broadside also aimed at the top two Republicans in Congress. The Vermont senator even struck a more conciliatory tone after a meeting at the White House, saying he looks forward to “working together” with the former secretary of state to defeat Donald Trump.
Speaking before the American Constitution Society, a liberal legal group, Senator Warren delivered the latest in a series of derisive anti-Trump speeches, adopting the mogul’s own mocking tone to call him a “thin-skinned, racist bully” and “a guy who inherited a fortune and kept it rolling along by cheating people”.
He may be signalling that he may exit the race or at least shift his focus away from Mrs Clinton after the final primary election next Tuesday in Washington, DC.
He continued, “In fact, I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office”.
The Clinton campaign tweeted back, “Delete Your Account”.
Democratic leaders and pundits have reportedly urged Sanders to stop campaigning and instead back Clinton.
Obama’s testimonial came less than an hour after he met privately with Sanders at the White House to discuss the future of the senator’s “political revolution”.
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“If anyone knows how to use a delete key, it’s you”, Priebus said in a Tweet addressed to Clinton. Clinton Social Media Director Alex Wall tweeted early Friday morning that it was “The most retweeted tweet of the campaign”. In March, he said “there has to be some form of punishment” for women who have abortions, a statement that Clinton challenged at the time and that drew hisses from the Planned Parenthood crowd as Clinton recalled it.
