Clinton has secured the support of enough delegates to become the Democrats’ presumptive nominee. Though both sides took offense, Sanders supporters took her non-endorsement particularly hard as the two senators have had so much in common politically.
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Speaking in a video tweeted out by Mrs Clinton, Mr Obama said she may be the most qualified person “ever” for the role of president.
Elizabeth Warren will endorse Hillary Clinton on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Thursday, MSBNC said in a statement.
Bernie Sanders’ speech after the White House meeting reflects his strong opposition to a Trump presidency.
After Tuesday’s wins in the final “Super Tuesday”, the endorsements began to roll in for Hillary Clinton.
“I’m with her. I’m fired up and I can not wait to get out there and campaign with Hillary”, Obama said.
For months he’s worked against Hillary Clinton, but today, after a White House meeting with President Obama, Bernie Sanders now says he’ll work with her.
Barack Obama is now in the game.
Vice President Joe Biden made a grammatically challenged endorsement of Clinton at an event in Washington on Thursday night, saying, “Anybody who thinks that whoever the next president is – and God willing, in my view, it will be Secretary Clinton”.
“First of all, I will do everything that I can to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States”, he said.
The ad, which will air in battleground states beginning Thursday, complements a speech she’s set to give Monday in OH, in which she’ll draw distinctions between her and Trump’s vision for America.
The Democrats clearly view the general election battleground as the industrial Rust Belt states. Democratic Sen. Harry Reid charged the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, Mitt Romney, with tax evasion without any evidence.
“It’s the areas that continue to poll very closely in terms of Democrats and Republicans and that both parties feel are nearly “must-wins” in order to capture the presidency”, he said. “But I think millions of people want to understand and see what kind of commitment she has to addressing the real crises in the country”.
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He also said the Vatican is the so-called Islamic State’s “ultimate trophy”, and “if and when” the group attacks it “the Pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been President because this would not have happened”.
