Though Bernie Sanders has officially endorsed Hillary Clinton and said he will do everything possible to get the former Secretary of State election to the highest office in the land, his campaign is not quite over, officially.
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“Secretary Clinton has won the democratic nominating process”, Sanders said.
“I hope they will recognize what the alternative will be, and the alternative will be someone who is completely unqualified to be the President of the United States, and I’m not really sure he’s qualified to be the President of anything”, says Kurpiewski.
The internet was quick to pick up on Sanders’ perceived discomfort, and rushed to quip about it.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has been trying to attract Sanders’ supporters to his campaign, fired off two tweets ahead of the endorsement.
According to the New York Times, an anonymous source claimed that some high-ranking Democrats said that Mr. Sanders “could become chairman of the committee that will work on trying to carry out a proposed $15 federal minimum wage”.
“In other words, the Democratic National Convention will be a contested convention”, Sanders said during a June 4, 2016, press conference. Regardless, effective July 25, Clinton will be poised to formally receive the Democratic nomination for president.
Sanders has turned his focus from the presidential campaign towards building a more progressive Democratic Party platform at the party’s convention in Philadelphia, Pa at the end of the month.
“It is no secret that Hillary Clinton and I disagree on a number of issues”, Sanders said Tuesday.
“It’s like he’s giving up if he endorses her”, said Steve Rand, a hardware store owner from Plymouth, New Hampshire, before the two candidates took the stage.
A new GenForward poll of adults ages 18 to 30 found that Clinton was struggling to make inroads among young Americans who overwhelmingly supported Sanders.
But he made another appeal to Democrats and independents who had backed Sanders. We are stronger together. “These have been hard days for America”, she said, adding that rebuilding bonds between communities and police will require contributions from everyone.
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“Today, with your support and the support of millions of people throughout our country, we begin a political revolution to transform our country economically, politically, socially and environmentally”, he told supporters when he announced his campaign March 26, 2015.
