President Barack Obama endorsed Clinton on Thursday, hours after meeting with Sanders at the White House.
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By every measure possible, Hillary Clinton defeated Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential nominating race.
Sanders has said the private meeting will help him determine how committed Clinton will be to the policy issues he has staked out during his 13-month campaign.
But even as the final results were being tallied, Clinton and Sanders met for almost two hours at the Capital Hilton, just a few blocks from the executive mansion they both hoped to occupy next year.
The Clinton statement said that the two talked about “unifying the party”, but the Sanders statement did not, as NBC News noted.
And a Clinton campaign official said the pair discussed both their shared liberal positions and agenda, while also expressing her appreciation for Sanders’ “commitment to stopping Trump in the general election”.
Sanders had a scheduled a meeting with Clinton on Tuesday evening to discuss the Democratic Party’s platform and whether she intends to adopt several of his progressive policies.
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik). Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives at the Capitol Hilton for a meeting with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. The two were joined by Sanders’ wife, Jane Sanders; his campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, and Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta and her campaign manager, Robby Mook.
On Sunday, Sanders told ABC News that the meeting with Clinton will be about “what kind of platform we have and … what kind of administration she will have”.
Clinton, a former Secretary of State and a former Senator from NY, is the first woman to become a presidential candidate of a major political party in USA electoral history.
Clinton also reached the necessary delegates to receive the nomination, although she only did so through securing the support of super delegates-something Sanders had failed to correct.
She is projected to have at least 2,800 delegates and more than 16 million votes.
The Clinton campaign and the Sanders campaign did not immediately return Complex’s request for comment.
The summit marked the first time the two have met since Clinton accrued enough delegates to clinch the nomination. Mrs Clinton also secured the endorsement of Senator Elizabeth Warren of MA, a leader of the party’s progressive wing.
Sanders’ public statements in recent weeks suggest the responsibility to unite the party falls on Clinton.
He added that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump “is totally unfit to be president of the United States”.
“I have clearly said that we faced terrorist enemies who use a perverted version of Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people”.
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“We’re going to have a wide-ranging conversation, because we share a lot of the same goals, ” Clinton said Tuesday night in an interview with Telemundo, an American Spanish-language broadcast television network. “But I will not demonize and declare war on an entire religion”.
