Bernie Sanders said on Friday he will vote for Hillary Clinton in the United States presidential election in November, bowing to his former Democratic White House rival but stopping short of endorsing her.
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Asked if he would vote for Clinton in November, Sanders told MSNBC television on Friday: “Yes”. “I think the issue right here is I’m gonna do everything I can to defeat Donald Trump”. These included not just the myriad dangers that Donald Trump presents, but also the ways in which a Democratic left could build during a Clinton presidency that it couldn’t under Trump’s.
Sanders hasn’t suspended his presidential campaign, even though Clinton has secured enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination and the primary season has ended.
Bernie Sanders is on a NY tour that will bring him to the state capital on Friday, and the Democratic presidential candidate is vowing to keep pressure on his party to enact policy reforms. Taking a lesson from Christina Pelosi, the Clinton campaign can work with the Sanders forces on party rules and platform planks acceptable to both sides.
During the interview, Sanders didn’t address the status of his campaign.
“We want to see Secretary Clinton stake out the most progressive positions that she can”, he said, adding that Clinton should also select a progressive running mate, one who does not “have roots” on Wall Street.
Democratic Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders delivered a speech in the Capital Region on Friday. Many Sanders voters, drawn to his calls for a “political revolution”, believe Clinton represents the status quo. But, he says if he becomes the next president, he will probably leave his businessman title in the past.
“In terms of the global economy, in the European Union and in the USA, while it’s great for CEOs to be running to China and making investments in China, they are forgetting about the millions of people who have lost their jobs”, Sanders said.
In the Bloomberg poll, only 5 percent of the Sanders supporters who didn’t plan to vote for Clinton said they were likely to change their minds.
Only 40pc of them say they would vote for her, with the rest undecided or divided between Mr Trump, a third-party candidate and staying home, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling. Sanders said he was holding out his endorsement of the former secretary of state because he wants to see how much of his platform she embraces. “I would hope that would happen, or it may not happen”, he said.
“Our job is to pass the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party”. I would like to hear Mrs Clinton say yes.
He said: “At the end of the day we did a lot better and went a lot further than people thought”.
Feingold said he looks forward to campaigning with Clinton in Wisconsin.
The challenge for Clinton will be luring those Democrats and independents who backed Sanders in the primaries.
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“The document is so moving around on us right now”, said Carol Browner, former director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy and former head of the Environmental Protection Agency.
