“Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president, and I am proud to stand with her here today”, he said.
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According to Clinton’s aides, the final Democratic Party platform includes language supporting a financial transaction tax that reflects the ideas, which Sanders are fighting for.
Clinton hopes the joint appearance will help her win over Sanders supporters, some of whom carried Sanders signs into the rally and frequently drowned out her supporters.
If Hillary Clinton becomes president she will do whatever she can to keep Bernie and his formidable coalition inside the Democratic party.
The email reportedly listed Clinton’s previous support of global trade deals and her connections with the financial and political establishment as reasons why Sanders’ supporters should side with Trump instead.
Recent polls have suggested only about 40% of Sanders supporters said they would get behind Clinton, and the crowd at Tuesday’s rally made it clear she still had work to do.
“He’s brought a lot of people, who I believe, felt disenfranchised for a really long time back into paying attention to our elections”, Dramer said.
Bernie and his supporters have the leverage now to generate enough opposition from within the party to sink her presidency. “Together, we continue the fight to create a government which represents all of us, and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice”.
On Tuesday, the Trump campaign sought to discredit Sanders.
“I think Hillary Clinton is a wonderful, wonderful candidate”, Steirer said.
Clinton is expected to officially be named the Democrat nominee next month.
Clinton also paid homage to the life Sanders’ campaign breathed into the Democratic base. “The candidate who warned that open borders destroy the working class is endorsing the candidate with the most open borders policy in our history”.
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“CBS This Morning” host Gayle King asked Sanders on June 24, 2016, why he hadn’t endorsed Hillary Clinton.
