Mrs Clinton met her dogged competitor at a hotel in Washington last night as she was declared the victor of the Democratic primary ballot in the District of Columbia, the final popular vote in the party’s race to pick a presidential candidate ahead of next month’s national convention.
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The two campaigns issued very similar statements after the meeting that said Clinton and Sanders discussed shared priorities such as raising wages, reforming campaign finance laws and making college affordable.
The result came moments ahead of a private meeting between Clinton and Sanders.
In a year when Clinton was expected to walk away easily with the nomination, Sanders won 12 million votes and contests in 22 states.
A total of 2,383 delegates were needed to capture the party’s nomination, and the 581 super delegates supporting Clinton were more than enough to put her over the top. That’s a troubling sign to many in the party who want a united front against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump sooner rather than later.
The Democratic nominating contests are over and Hillary Clinton claimed victory a week ago. Neither spoke to reporters after the session at a Washington, D.C., hotel a few blocks from the White House. Both candidates agreed to work together on the development of the platform at the upcoming Democratic National Convention.
Mr Sanders vowed on Sunday to remain in the race until the convention in July, a move that took some by surprise.
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.
Sanders plans to address his supporters in a livestream at 8:30 p.m. Thursday night, where he may reveal plans for how to both carry his revolution forward while working – presumably alongside Clinton as the Democratic nominee – to defeat Trump in November.
Robby Mook, the Clinton campaign manager, arrived Thursday morning at Democratic headquarters on Capitol Hill to introduce Davis to the party’s staff.
“Tomorrow night, no, he’s not ending it”, Briggs said of the campaign.
“I think the time is now”.
Ms. Warren, a leading progressive voice among Democrats, is among those Democratic presidential candidate Ms. Clinton is vetting for the vice presidential position, the newspaper reported.
Sanders managed to tap into a deep well of anger among young voters disillusioned by the current political system and eager to see action taken to reduce income inequality, one of Sanders’s main goals.
The mass shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, has commanded the attention of both campaigns and prompted Democrats to point to Trump’s call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US, an issue they view as a key contrast in the general election.
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Instead of hailing the end of a historic primary season, Clinton and Trump were trading explosive verbal blows and laying out dramatically different approaches for fighting terrorism in the wake of the massacre at a gay nightclub in Florida. She’s noted that polls taken during the 2008 Democratic nomination race showed that about 40% of her supporters said they wouldn’t support then-senator Barack Obama.
