“I don’t think there has ever been someone so qualified to hold this office”, said Mr Obama in a video posted on YouTube and Mrs Clinton’s campaign website.
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After meeting with President Obama on Thursday, Sanders addressed reporters outside the White House, saying he hopes to meet with Clinton soon.
“I’m with her, I am fired up, and I can not wait to get out there to campaign for Hillary”, he added.
Obama has endorsed Hillary Clinton, presumptive nominee for the Democratic party, to succeed him as president.
Standing in her way is bombastic businessman Donald Trump, who shocked the world by becoming the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton were rivals during the 2008 Democratic primary that Mr Obama won.
Sanders read the prepared statement outside the White House after his meeting with Obama, who was not seen after the meeting. Whether or not Sanders and his idealistic followers now take the Democratic Convention by storm, you can be sure the party’s platform will include a respectable chunk of his agenda.
“In a meeting today, Vice President Biden and Senator Sanders discussed the importance of what Senator Sanders’ campaign has done to focus the conversation in this country on income inequality, the corrosive influence of big money in our campaigns and the need to reform our politics”.
Clinton quickly thanked the president.
As it circulated the Obama video, the Clinton campaign announced their first joint appearance on the campaign trail will be Wednesday in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Specifically, Obama said Clinton has the “courage, compassion and heart to get the job done”.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton claimed the nomination on Tuesday night.
Mr Merkley said he supports Mr Sanders’ “big ideas to take on big challenges”, including abolishing the system of “corrupt” campaign finance, tackling climate change and making college affordable. “But more importantly, it’ll make the Democratic Party stronger, and it will make America stronger”.
It was a reference to Clinton’s email scandal and the fact that his skeleton campaign staff is dwarfed for her army in Brooklyn.
He said on Thursday he would compete in the final primary in Washington, D.C., on June 14.
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The billionaire real estate mogul wrote: “Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillary. He wants four more years of Obama – but nobody else does!”
