U.S. President Barack Obama has endorsed Hillary Clinton, just two days after his former secretary of state became the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president. It was Clinton’s first public appearance since securing the Democratic presidential nomination, and she didn’t waste any time explaining why a Donald Trump presidency would be awful for women in 2016.
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Many believe that bringing on a progressive icon, whom many wanted to have a presidential bid of her own, could retain bring some on the Bernie Sanders wing of the party over to Clinton’s side.
Sanders said on Thursday he would remain in the race through the final nominating contest in Washington, D.C., next week but would work with Clinton to defeat Trump.
The video was posted shortly after Obama met with Clinton’s rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders.
Despite the urgency to unite the party, the White House on Thursday said it was up to Sanders to make the decision as to when and how he ends the campaign. Clinton has 2,784 delegates, including 581 superdelegates, according to RealClearPolitics and needs 2,382 to become the nominee at the national convention in July in Philadelphia. For protecting Obama’s legacy, addressing Warren’s concerns about income inequality and advancing Sanders’ “revolution”, Clinton is also a far more likely ally than Trump.
Wynne, who is the first female premier of Ontario, say she finds it “frightening” that someone like Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee, could get to such a position.
Republicans including Trump have savaged her for her judgement, saying she put USA national security at risk, and have accused her of deleting key emails that she did not want Americans to know about.
Now head-to-head in the presidential race, Clinton and Trump have one thing in common: Both are working to woo Sanders supporters.
“Generally speaking a platform is a piece of paper tucked away in some kind of drawer but I do not want that to be the case”, he said.
“Anyone who would so casually agree to the idea of punishing women like it was nothing. that’s someone who doesn’t hold women in high regard”, Clinton said.
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Earnest characterized the Obama-Sanders meeting at his daily press briefing, calling the campaign “a remarkable accomplishment”. “In fact, I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office”.
