Clinton’s win in the District of Columbia, the final primary of 2016, had no bearing on her role as the presumptive nominee, but it nevertheless marked a transition in the lengthy primary fight between the two rivals.
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In a year when Clinton was expected to walk away easily with the nomination, Sanders won 12 million votes and contests in 22 states.
The Sanders campaign suffered two major blows in the past several weeks, first being his loss in California, which gave Clinton the minimum number of delegates needed to become the party’s nominee.
Speaking ahead of a planned meeting with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, Sanders said, “The time is now-in fact, the time is long overdue, for a fundamental transformation of the Democratic party”.
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”.
Clinton said earlier Tuesday in an interview with Telemundo that she was very much “looking forward to having his support in this campaign, because Donald Trump poses a serious threat to our nation”.
Grijalva seemed to speak to the rest of the Democratic party when he wrote, “Unity will not be realized if the millions of voters who supported Bernie Sanders feel taken for granted”.
Clinton, the former secretary of state, took 79 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s primary to 21 percent for Sanders, the Independent senator from Vermont.
Sanders needs to tell his supporters he fought until the bitter end, Miringoff said.
“I have clearly said that we faced terrorist enemies who use a perverted version of Islam to justify slaughtering innocent people”.
Given these ongoing developments, one wonders how a meeting planned between Clinton and Sanders on Tuesday will go. The next stage of this “revolution” will begin with support for Clinton, a corrupt defender of the status quo who is widely despised for her Wall Street ties and war-mongering. This looks more like another kind of campaign entirely – one meant to fix any damage done to Sanders’ standing with establishment Democrats.
Warren threw her support endorsed behind Clinton last week as the former secretary of state moved her sights from the nominating contest toward a November 8 match-up against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
“Bernie from the beginning has said that it’s not about him, it’s about the movement”, he said.
“He was very warmly received”, Cardin said, noting that Sanders received multiple standing ovations.
Sanders plans to address his supporters via a video on Thursday. And to have a woman vice presidential nominee at the same time, that would be interesting. Clinton intends to listen “respectfully” to Sanders and his call to influence the platform, an aide said.
Victoria Walker, a student at Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania, who also voted for Sanders in the primary, said she would vote similarly, seeing as “Trump isn’t fit for office”.
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If Democrats retake the Senate majority – and should Clinton win they’d need a net gain of four seats – Sanders would likely chair the Budget Committee, which writes the spending blueprint for the upcoming year.
