With the nomination in sight, Clinton has kept her focus on a general election battle with Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.
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Last month, 41 per cent of Sanders’ supporters said they would vote for the former secretary of state if she runs against Trump in the November 8 general election.
“If the Democratic leadership wants a campaign that will not only retain the White House but regain the Senate and win governors’ chairs all across this country, we are that campaign”, he said.
Singer Dave Matthews is scheduled to perform at a Get Out The Vote (GOTV) rally for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders ahead of tomorrow’s California primary.
She told a cheering crowd she was on the brink of a “historic, unprecedented moment”, but said there was still work to be done in the six states to vote later on Tuesday.
Clinton’s rise to presumptive nominee arrived almost eight years to the day after she conceded her first White House campaign to Barack Obama.
“It’s going to make her ability to seal the deal with disaffected Democrats all that much harder”, said Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist who supports Clinton.
“The Democratic National Convention will be a contested convention”, he added.
The California primary is open to both registered Democratic and voters without a party affiliation.
The endorsement ends with the following message: “Voters in California’s Democratic primary owe a debt of gratitude to Bernie Sanders for a campaign that has emphasized issues that otherwise might have been ignored”.
It could also help Trump argue that she is a weak candidate.
Clinton leads Sanders by only two points-49 percent to 47 percent-leaving the possibility that the former secretary of state could secure the Democratic nomination Tuesday without the backing of the nation’s most populous state.
“Clinton is not only more knowledgeable about domestic and worldwide affairs than Sanders, but also more likely to achieve objectives they have in common”, the board said. The senator has not released his May fundraising figures.
But Michael Briggs, Sanders’ spokesman, dismissed the AP and NBC tallies.
The wife of former president Bill Clinton had a decisive weekend victory in Puerto Rico and a burst of last-minute support from superdelegates.
That means his only path to the nomination would require super-delegates – members of a Democratic establishment that has heavily favored Clinton from the start of the campaign – switching their allegiance to Sanders and overturning the popular vote. An Obama endorsement would come as a welcome boost to Clinton and to Democrats concerned the party needs to turn its attention to campaigning against Trump.
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Trump, however, was on the defensive over comments about Mexican-American U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing fraud lawsuits against Trump University, the NY businessman’s defunct real estate school. On Monday, Trump insisted his concerns were valid.
