“I think we should be a little graceful and give him the opportunity to decide on his own”.
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Before Sanders announced his candidacy last spring, only the most inside-the-Beltway, inside-baseball politicos cared about the utility of superdelegates or the fairness of the closed-primary system.
Mr Obama congratulated Mrs Clinton on her nomination win in a phone call and will meet Sanders on Thursday at the senator’s request.
However, Obama did not formally endorse Clinton – his former Secretary of State. “The Clinton campaign only appears to have begun buying ads to promote the site more recently”. He vowed to fight on for a political revolution but showed signs he would bow to the inevitable and bring his insurgent effort to a close.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard called on him to stay and fight through the convention – a prospect that even other Sanders supporters were not embracing.
“We will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate we can get”, Sanders said.
“This is the ideal symbolic ending to the Democratic Party primary”, wrote Glenn Greenwald, journalist for The Intercept, on Tuesday.
Pressure would mount for Mr Sanders to exit graciously and throw his support to Mrs Clinton. At the moment Ms. Clinton’s strong delegate count puts in the shadow her only Democratic rival – the self-declared socialist Bernie Sanders.
Senator Bill Nelson from Florida said Mr Sanders should “stand down” and Senator Bob Casey said Democrats must come together and unify. As Sanders supporters’ have long said, their movement is bigger than the presidency, but they want the presidency, too.
United States presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have kicked off a fierce general election battle. “This isn’t something that I thought I would see in my lifetime to a certain extent”, Viverito told reporters before Clinton’s speech in Brooklyn.
The stars are reacting to Hillary Clinton’s historic victory Tuesday, when she became America’s first female presumptive presidential nominee for a major party. Bernie Sanders time to leave the race on his own terms.
“Essentially, yes, of course”, Gallego told CNN’s Alex Rosen.
Hillary Clinton became the first woman to win the democratic presidential nomination last night after winning four states, including winning the rural vote in New Mexico and South Dakota. Fellow Democrats urged Bernie Sanders to end his all-but-hopeless challenge to her, but still tried to give him space to make that hard decision.
Administration officials have repeatedly said Obama is extremely eager to help unite the Democratic party and hit the campaign trail to support its presidential nominee.
Biden has previously praised Sanders for thinking big when it comes to how to lead the country.
For the New York Times, Patrick Healy and Jonathan Martin report. “You know, my mother was someone that when I was 7 years old insisted that I say, ‘Trick or treat and vote for JFK.’ She was like Hillary Clinton’s mother”.
“Bernie is speaking to a yearning that is deep and real”.
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Senator Jeff Merkley, an Oregon Democrat who was his sole supporter in the US Senate during the primary, indicated that he believes Mr Sanders ought to drop out sooner rather than later, telling the Washington Post: “Once a candidate has won a majority of the pledged delegates and a majority of the popular vote, which Secretary Clinton has now done, we have our nominee”.
