President Obama endorsed Clinton in an online video Thursday afternoon, calling for Democrats to unify around the party’s presumptive nominee, who he said he believes would be the most qualified person to hold the office of the presidency.
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Bernie Sanders, Democratic Party presidential candidate, has bowed out of the race, vowing to work with Hillary Clinton to defeat Donald Trump of the Republican Party.
“I think she (Warren) is an incredible public servant, eminently qualified for any role”, said Clinton in an interview to USA daily Politico, reports Xinhua news agency. Obama has said he’s “fired up” and ready to get started.
“The two ran against one another for the Democratic nomination in 2008 and Mr Obama later made Mrs Clinton secretary of state”.
The Clinton campaign posted the video shortly after Obama met with Sanders at the White House. “I look forward to meeting with her in the near future” to discuss how to defeat Trump. Sanders told reporters after the meeting that he would do everything “to make sure Donald Trump does not become president of the USA”. “It is unbelievable to me that the Republican Party would have a candidate who in the year 2016 makes bigotry and discrimination a corner stone of his campaign”.
Many have speculated Warren may join Clinton’s ticket as the Democratic vice presidential nominee, but Warren reiterated in the interview to the Globe that she did not want to “get into” speculation about potentially being tapped for the position.
Although he still declined to endorse Clinton at the moment.
Clinton claimed the nomination on Tuesday, and plans to campaign next week with Obama in Green Bay, Wis. I’ve seen her determination to give every American a fair shot at opportunity, no matter how tough the fight was.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined that effort Thursday evening, endorsing Clinton and signaling to many of Sanders’ supporters that it’s time to unite around the party’s presumptive nominee. A Trump presidency would be a “disaster”, he said.
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He barely mentioned next Tuesday’s primary election in the city, the last on the Democratic primary calendar. “I think this man in a dozen different ways is not fit to become president”.
