President Obama endorses Hillary Clinton as his successor

Warren’s endorsement also signaled to progressive voters now backing Bernie Sanders that it’s time to unite around the presumptive Democratic nominee.

Her prolonged contest with Sanders, whose campaign was not widely expected to survive the first few nominating contests, laid bare the cost of that restraint, both in style and substance.

“I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office”, Obama said in the video. I have seen her toughness.

Though Clinton and Warren met for 66 minutes on Friday in Washington, and have been casual acquaintances, there is not much evidence that they have a close relationship.

As Democrats pacified their own rebellious outsider, they were as good as their word, up to a point.

Obama still has strong approval ratings after his eight-year term in office. They cited trust and integrity issues as the reason they weren’t voting for Clinton, and said their support for Sanders’ platform and policies trumped any notion that they should back a candidate angling for a historic first.

So Sanders enjoyed a chummy stroll for the cameras through the White House colonnade beside Obama, a photo-op with Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and an audience with Biden at his official residence.

Mr Sanders emerged from the White House meeting subdued and indicated he had got the message. But he also warned he would use his newly won leverage to influence the ideology of a potential Clinton administration. Chuck Schumer of NY, the party’s incoming Senate leader. He’s no longer the fringe player he was for decades and can likely look forward to a plumb Senate committee assignment at the very least.

David Axelrod, a former aide to Obama and senior CNN political commentator said on “New Day” Friday said Warren has worked out a way to distract Trump.

At an evening campaign rally at Washington’s RFK Stadium, Mr Sanders made no mention of Mrs Clinton, of trying to win over the party insiders known as superdelegates or of pressing his case at next month’s Democratic National Convention.

The two campaigns bear strikingly similar trajectories.

By Thursday night, Warren bestowed her hugely significant endorsement on Clinton, sending a message to Sanders supporters that political purity had its place but that pragmatism now required a united front against Trump.

US President Barack Obama formally threw his support behind presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in a web video on Thursday.

Clinton would be 69 herself when inaugurated president so picking someone from her own generation – man or woman – for a sexagenarian ticket might leave the important bloc of younger voters cold.

Keith: One last question.

“I’m with her”, said Obama, in remarks recorded on Tuesday. “He has to fix this”.

And for aspiring Democrats eyeing future White House bids, it serves notice that the presidential demand for a diverse voting coalition isn’t just a general election concern for Republicans too dependent on whites; it actually begins in the Democratic primary.

“Our job is not to allow politicians, Mr. Trump or anyone else, to divide us up by where our family came from, the color of our skin, our religion or our sexual orientation”, Sanders said.

While her husband could draw on the crisp centrist philosophy of the “third way” Democrats in 1992, when he devoted his candidacy to the “forgotten middle class”, Hillary Clinton has struggled to hit upon as simple and clear a rationale for her campaign.

For many, Clinton-a former first lady, secretary of state and USA senator-is the epitome of a political establishment that has failed the people.

But he got the better of the Clinton campaign on the medium where he rules as the undisputed master of the swift comeback: Twitter.

“Obama just endorsed Crooked Hillary”.

Vice presidential nominees have sometimes been picked to deliver a crucial swing state or region – the most famous example is the choice of Sen.

“To every little girl who dreams big: Yes, you can be anything you want–even president”.