After receiving President Barack Obama’s endorsement on Thursday to succeed him in the White House, Clinton, who this week clinched the Democratic nomination for the November 8 election, tweeted she was honoured to have his support and “fired up and ready to go”.
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The Obama endorsement increases pressure on Sanders, a US senator from Vermont, to bow out of the race and lend his support to Clinton so that the party can focus on defeating Trump.
Soon after Obama endorsed former secretary of state Clinton, the Clinton Campaign said they would canvass together in Wisconsin on June 15.
“I’m with her. I am fired up, and I can not wait to get out there and campaign for Hillary”, Obama said in a video released by the Clinton campaign.
“I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office”, Obama said of Clinton in a video. “I’m with her. I am fired up, and I can not wait to get out there and campaign for Hillary”.
The Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) described Clinton bagging the Democratic nomination as “undoubtedly historic not only because she is the first woman to be nominated for president, but because she has united diverse communities across the country in a movement toward victory”.
Obama Administration spokesman Josh Earnest said Senator Sanders wasn’t surprised to hear the President was endorsing his former secretary of state.
“It would be extraordinary if the people of Washington, our nation’s capital, stood up and told the world that they are ready to lead this country into a political revolution”, Sanders said in the final sentence of his hourlong address. And flipping superdelegates – party officials and insiders who get a vote on the convention floor – is likely off the table after Obama’s endorsement, as Democrats are unlikely to deviate from the leader of the party set.
Obama’s endorsement, although long expected, is a shot in the arm for the Clinton campaign.
Mitt Romney says he worries that Donald Trump is promoting “trickle-down racism” and appealing to the racist tendencies of some Americans.
Obama’s endorsement and Sanders’ visit were the public culmination of that work.
CNN’s Polling Director Jennifer Agiesta analyzed the age and gender breakdown in 27 states where CNN conducted exit and entrance polls during the primaries – and found that overall, Clinton led Sanders 61% to 37% among women. He would also meet Democratic leaders in the US Congress and Vice President Joe Biden. “He wants four more years of Obama–but nobody else does”, Trump tweeted. “It’s a great opportunity for us to campaign together in the general election, just as we did in 2008 when he was running”.
The full interview was due to be broadcast last night.
“I thought that the primary was really important”, she said.
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Now the 68-year-old Clinton is trying to make history of her own by becoming the first female commander in chief.
