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According to The Huffington Post, The Bern is expected to meet with Hillary Clinton soon and discuss his role in the general election effort.
In adding his voice of support to theirs, Obama recalled both Clinton’s time as his secretary of state – they chose to kill Osama bin Laden and conducted diplomacy around the world – and the more than 20 debates they took part in during their own “hard-fought campaign” in 2008.
“I know how hard this job can be, that’s why I know Hillary will be so good at it”, Obama said in a prerecorded video released Thursday afternoon.
The Massachusetts Democrat cast it as a matter of “us versus them”, of uniting as Democrats to take on Donald Trump and the rest of the Republicans.
The senator, who said he believed that Mr Sanders “changed the conversation in America”, was pushed as to whether he only supported the potential vice president nominee, Ms Warren, and not the presidential nominee, Ms Clinton.
Clinton, the former secretary of state, won enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination this week and become the first woman to lead a major US party as its presidential nominee.
Jeff Merkley is “supporting” Hillary Clinton for president but stopped short of saying he endorses the presumptive Democratic nominee.
“My hope is, is that over the next couple of weeks, we’re able to pull things together”, Obama said, recalling his own bitter campaign rivalry with Clinton in 2008. “This is the last primary of the Democratic nominating process”.
Democratic leaders and pundits have reportedly urged Sanders to stop campaigning and instead back Clinton.
Sanders went on to note that he will be going to the convention with over 1,900 delegates, which he suggested would give him significant leeway in determining what type of platform the party adopts.
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Even more daunting a task this time for party establishment to bridge the Clinton and Sanders divide was the anti-establishment sentiment Sanders had stirred up among disheartened Democratic and independent voters in this chaotic primary season.
