On 16 June, Bernie Sanders promised to work with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to beat Republican Donald Trump in the upcoming USA election to be held on 8 November.
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Sanders said in a capstone address to his political followers online that the major task they face is to “make certain” Trump is defeated.
Another thing to consider is that Hillary Clinton’s top rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders, hasn’t even conceded or endorsed her yet. Mrs. Clinton effectively wrapped up the Democratic nomination by winning four of six states that voted on June 7.
Sanders’ campaign spokesman Michael Briggs said the meeting focused on how to bring more people into the political process and address the threat posed by Trump.
He said his call for a political revolution means that “at every level, we continue the fight to make our society a nation of economic, social, racial and environmental justice”. “And we must take that energy into the Democratic National Convention on July 25 in Philadelphia. where we will have more than 1,900 delegates”.
Earlier, his aides said he would not fight to win over superdelegates, the party leaders unbound by their state’s results who cast their votes at the convention.
Mr Sanders has kept his campaign alive as leverage to force concessions from Ms Clinton on his policy goals during deliberations on the party’s issues platform, and on the reform she seeks in the Democratic Party’s nominating process.
A day after US President Barack Obama criticised him for using the term “radical Islam“, Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump vehemently defended his stand arguing that the phraseology makes a “big difference” in the war against terrorism. Instead, he said he wanted to work with her to change the party and defeat Trump. He said that after Sanders has “a period of conversation” with Clinton’s campaign and his own supporters, “we would like to get to a place where we could very actively support the nominee”.
Following Clinton and Sanders’ Tuesday evening Washington, D.C., sit-down, which both campaigns characterized as “positive”, the senator backed away from fundraising efforts, as well as from his push to take his White House bid to the floor of the Democratic National Convention – a shift that fueled rumors of the senator’s plans to exit the contest.
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Before launching into a litany of wrongs that still need to be righted – campaign finance reform, inequality, the high cost of college, low minimum wages, corporate greed and crumbling infrastructure, among others – Sanders said he feels “very optimistic” about the future. “Since 2009, some 900 legislative seats have been lost to Republicans in state after state throughout this country”, he said.
