Shortly after a one-on-one session with U.S. Sen. “I thought that Bernie Sanders brought enormous energy and new ideas”, Obama said during a taped appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”. Trump has said he welcomes Sanders’ voters “with open arms” while Clinton vowed to reach out proactively to voters who backed her opponent in the Democratic primary.
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Sanders won the North Dakota and Montana caucuses, but Clinton still finished Tuesday with a majority of the votes, of the pledged delegates and of delegates overall.
In his endorsement, Obama said: “I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office”.
“It is unbelievable to me, and I say this in all sincerity, that the Republican Party would have a candidate for president who in the year 2016 makes bigotry and discrimination the cornerstone of his campaign”.
Trump assailed the endorsement on Twitter: “He wants four more years of Obama-but nobody else does!”
Five minutes later, Clinton quoted his tweet and added three more words: Delete your account.
So far, Sanders had offered mixed response as to what his next step would be after being mathematically eliminated from the race.
Mr Sanders has reiterated the main planks of his campaign hitting out at poverty, crumbling infrastructure and Wall Street corporates which don’t pay their taxes.
Sanders, standing in the White House driveway with his wife, Jane, at his side, said he would compete in the Washington, D.C., primary on Tuesday, the party’s final contest, but noted his interest was largely in pushing for statehood.
Sanders will meet with Senator Minority Leader Harry Reid on Capitol Hill before holding a rally Thursday night in Washington.
“Bernie’s going to do the right thing”, Grijalva said Wednesday on the sidelines of discussions about the official Democratic Party platform.
Trump has 8.76 million followers to Clinton’s 6.6 million.
“I think he’s struggling… the race is over, he hasn’t acted like it”. But, the Obama administration has hinted it won’t force the issue.
“Secretary Clinton and Senator Sanders may have been rivals during this primary, but they’re both patriots who love this country and they share a vision for an America that we all believe in”, Obama said. Among Democrats, his approval rating was 82.3 percent, though 84.3 percent of Republicans disapproved of his leadership. But the real question is whether Warren will be asked to do it from her powerful perch in Congress or by Clinton’s side as her running mate.
“She’s not a very good candidate”, Rollins said.
“It’s hard. It’s very hard”, she said.
Clinton’s next most retweeted tweet was her announcement for her bid to run for president in April 2015.
Clinton has previously said a plan to generate jobs by investing in transportation and other infrastructure spending and immigration reform would be among other early priorities.
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“I know that there are always disgruntled or unhappy campaign people, especially when a race is lost”.
