Bernie Sanders, comedian and Sanders fan Brandon Wardell told CNN that he is now ready to let go of Sanders and vote for Hillary Clinton.
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Democrats have coalesced around Clinton’s candidacy since she defeated Sanders in primaries last month in California and five other states, helped along by endorsements from President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and others.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton smiles Tuesday as she arrives on stage with Sen.
The GenForward poll found that among those who preferred Sanders in the primaries, only half are prepared to say they’ll back Clinton in her general election face-off with presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. “These are America’s fights”, Clinton said.
His reckless economic policies will not only exacerbate income and wealth inequality, they would increase our national debt by trillions of dollars, said the Vermont senator.
But Clinton’s campaign may not simply be able to count on young voters seeing her as the lesser of two evils in a race against Trump.
“While there is no definite link between Clinton’s drop in Florida and the U.S. Justice Department decision not to prosecute her for her handling of e-mails, she has lost ground to Trump on questions which measure moral standards and honesty”, said Peter Brown, assistant poll director, in a written release.
Speaking in front of supporters from both camps in New Hampshire Mr Sanders, who for months ran against Mrs Clinton in a hotly-contested and bitter campaign for the party’s nomination, congratulated her for winning. She tried to strike the right notes, though, such as pledging to uphold our progressive values..
“I doubt that that will happen”, he said.
For many of those supporters, voting for Clinton is still hard to fathom.
The event at a Portsmouth high school sought to project Democratic unity before Republicans formally nominate Trump next week in Cleveland but some Sanders’ supporters in the crowd did not appear to be ready to move on. Yet other polls show that only a small fraction of them would do so enthusiastically. I wont vote for Trump, but November is a long way away, he said.
But behind the scenes, her senior campaign aides have been in frequent contact with Sanders advisers while also trying to build bridges to a wing of the party skeptical of Clinton and the brand of moderate politics her husband advanced.
That’s “a pretty significant difference” between blacks and whites, she said. While Trump performs strongest with young whites, only 27 percent view him favorably. The clashes in the audience quickly subsided, and Sanders drew some of his strongest cheers as he described his challenge against Clinton and his primary and caucus victories in 22 states. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in… The group was an early and active supporter of Sanders’ campaign. “There were a lot of independents in that list, a lot of people that were coming in to the political process for the very first time”.
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During much of her remarks, Clinton embraced many of Sanders’ causes, vowing to oppose trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, fight to raise the federal minimum wage – adopting Sanders’ tone, she called it a “starvation wage” – and overhaul the campaign finance system.
