U.S. President Barack Obama has endorsed Hillary Clinton, his former secretary of state, to be the next president – saying he doesn’t think there has ever been someone so qualified to hold the office.
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Despite Hillary Clinton becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for President as a result of Tuesday’s primaries, Arizona backers of Bernie Sanders say their candidate deserves a chance to stay in the race.
AP declared that Clinton is the Democratic nominee because she has enough pledged delegates and superdelegates to cross the party’s threshold for nomination.
Clinton was responding to Donald Trump’s accusations that the foundation accepted money from foreign governments while she served as secretary of State.
Clinton did not dignify Trump’s insults with a lengthy response because 140 characters only go so far (which could be why he loves Twitter so much).
As for Sanders, he is still campaigning for now.
Critically, Sanders supporters also want to see Clinton embrace more left-leaning policies, according to Neil Sroka of Democracy for America, a political action committee that endorsed Sanders.
Sanders, who was accompanied by his wife, Jane, and spoke from prepared remarks, arrived at the White House just after 11:15 a.m. He and Obama took a short walk from the White House residence along the colonnade to the Oval Office.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama has now spoken with Sanders three times in the last week, and “I think it’s fair to say Sen”.
“When you look at the issues, there’s a pretty broad consensus about what it means to be a Democrat and what our values are, and what we’re fighting for”, Obama told party donors in NY on Wednesday, previewing his sit-down with Sanders. The Post reports Obama will endorse Clinton in a video released later Thursday.
Sanders thanked Obama, and his vice president Joe Biden, for not putting their hands on the scale during the primary race.
The president was in Manhattan for the day to tape the “Tonight Show” and speak at two fundraisers – a roundtable for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and a question-and-answer session for the Democratic National Committee.
“The main role I’m going to be playing in this process is to remind the American people that this is a serious job”, Obama said.
US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders addresses supporters following the closing of the polls in the California presidential primary in Santa Monica, California, US, June 7, 2016.
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As the Democratic primary season was all but over, the notion of party unity had become a crucial topic in the Democratic field.
