U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday endorsed Hillary Clinton to succeed him, declaring in a video message “I’m with her”.
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“I am pretty good at arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight”, Sanders said. “In fact, I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office”.
While Trump shot to the top of the Republican race with freewheeling rhetoric, insults of rivals and promises to get tough on issues such as illegal immigration, even his biggest donors say they are discouraged by the candidate’s attacks in recent weeks on a Mexican-American judge. “And I can’t wait to get out there and campaign with Hillary”. Sanders’ campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, told The Washington Post that “presumptive nominee”, which Clinton is now being described as, is just “a term of art that the media uses”.
In an endorsement video released by the Clinton campaign, Obama made it clear he wants Clinton to win the White House in order to preserve his legacy. Though Sanders has not officially conceded and plans to continue through the June 14 Washington, D.C., primary, his remarks following his conference imply he too is looking to work with Clinton to unify Democrats in preparation for the November election.
“I want those of you who’ve been with me from the beginning of this incredible journey to be the first to know that ‘I’m with Her.’ I am fired up and can not wait to get out there and campaign for Hillary”, Mr Obama said in the video.
Ms. Warren, the only woman Senator who has not endorsed Ms. Clinton, shares most of the concerns with Mr. Sanders and could be attractive to his supporters who are now feeling dejected.
Clinton’s tweet also had other cheeky Republican detractors.
Obama and Sanders could be seen chatting and smiling as they headed toward the Oval Office. “He wants four more years of Obama – but nobody else does!” the presumptive Republican nominee added. “It just means so much to have a strong, substantive endorsement from the president”.
Looking ahead to the fall campaign, Sanders said after the meeting with the president that his top priority is to defeat Trump, saying the NY businessman had made “bigotry and discrimination” the cornerstones of his campaign.
Following the meeting, Mr. Sanders refused to bow out before the final Democratic primary next week, but said he would meet rival Clinton soon to foster party unity. While winning the support of millions of youth and working people on the basis of his attacks on the “millionaires and billionaires” and his calls for a “political revolution”, Sanders has worked for decades as a loyal ally of the Democratic Party establishment.
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“When Donald Trump says, ‘let’s make America great again, ‘ that is code for ‘let’s take America backward, ‘” she told the cheering audience.
