In more recent days, Sanders has focused on appealing to D.C. Democrats and reminding them not to ignore the final primary of the year.
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Clinton secured the delegates needed to clinch the nomination in last week’s primaries and is now seen as the likely Democratic nominee.
Sanders is set to hold a national live stream with his supporters Thursday evening. The self-declared democratic socialist said over the weekend that he will meet with Mrs Clinton late Tuesday to discuss the Democratic Party platform ahead of the national convention next month in Philadelphia.
Clinton’s win in the District of Columbia, the final primary of 2016, had no bearing on her role as the presumptive nominee, but it nevertheless marked a transition in the lengthy primary fight between the two rivals. She also said the Democratic senators Sanders spoke to Tuesday acknowledge that he commands enthusiastic support from a large number of voters, “many of whom had not traditionally participated”. Clinton won with 78.7 percent of the vote, compared to 21.1 percent for Sanders.
Clinton is now the presumptive Democratic nominee and Sanders has shown signs of winding down his campaign. “He hopes we can figure out a way to welcome all of the people who have turned out for Sen Sanders into the Democratic Party fold”. She has since last week earned the endorsements of many party leaders, including President Barack Obama.
“We need a party which is prepared to stand up for the disappearing middle class, for the 47 million people in this country who are living in poverty, and take on the greed of the powerful special interests that are doing so much harm to this country, who have so much power over the political and economic life of our country”, he said.
“Sen. Sanders and Secretary Clinton met in Washington on Tuesday evening and had a positive discussion about how best to bring more people into the political process and about the risky threat that Donald Trump poses to our nation”, said Michael Briggs, Sanders’ spokesman, in a statement.
“Now that our 2016 primaries are officially at their end, Democrats are ready to unify and take on both Trump and the Republican Party that he represents”.
“The time is long overdue for a fundamental transformation of the Democratic Party”, Sanders said.
Clinton already has fully engaged in the general election campaign against Trump, which has been re-framed by the mass shooting at an Orlando gay club on Sunday by an American man claiming allegiance to Islamic State.
After Clinton’s big victories in several states last week, including California and New Jersey, there has been a concerted effort on the part of top Democrats, as well as Sanders, to bring the party together to defeat Donald Trump.
In virtually identical statements released after meeting for more than 90 minutes, the Clinton and Sanders campaigns said the two rivals discussed their primary campaign, “unifying the party and. the unsafe threat that Donald Trump poses to our nation”.
At a press conference earlier on Tuesday, he called for DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to be replaced, and for superdelegates to be taken out of the party’s primary equation. After the discussion, Sanders said he will “be able to make other decisions”.
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“He had an opportunity to talk to us about his campaign and how it has changed him and what he has learned”, said Sen.
