In Obama’s Wake, Elizabeth Warren Endorses Hillary Clinton

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of MA also backed Clinton on Thursday, telling MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was “a genuine threat to the country”. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and later with Vice President Joe Biden.

Clinton’s attacks on Trump – in her first speech since securing the endorsement ofPresident Obama on Thursday – continued the same focus on progressive and women’s issues that she emphasized during the primary.

While both Sanders and Obama gave statements soon after the meeting (more on that later), the exact details of the conversation were not revealed.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein is recruiting Sanders’ backers – including many young voters and independents.

Her first major address since securing enough delegates to clinch the nomination served Clinton on two fronts as she looks to mend fissures within the Democratic Party while turning to the general election.

“I thought it made Hillary a better candidate”.

Speaking from his own experience as POTUS, Obama states, “I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office”.

Trump assailed the endorsement on Twitter: “He wants four more years of Obama-but nobody else does!”

The tweet from Clinton’s account was sacked off nearly immediately. Obama’s long-expected endorsement, delivered via web video, included a forceful call for unity and for “embracing” Sanders’ economic message, which has fired up much of the liberal wing of his party.

The risk for Clinton is that Sanders overplays his hand or feels shunned – and continues his insurgency. We’d be highlighting how Bernie Sanders still hasn’t quit his race, creating a fissure inside the party.

After months of assiduously avoiding tipping the scales of the Democratic presidential primaries and a Thursday meeting with Clinton’s closest rival Bernie Sanders, Obama congratulated Clinton on “making history. I have seen her judgment”, said the president.

Sanders said Trump would be “a disaster as president of the United States”.

Mr Sanders, who has vowed to take his political revolution to their national Democratic convention in July, has been stressing his determination to defeat Mr Trump.

Earlier, Clinton met with Massachusetts Sen. “And we have to ask ourselves and ask everyone we come in contact with: Do we want to put our health, our lives, our futures in Donald Trump’s hands?”

“This woman is a war goddess; she orchestrated the war in Libya, the war on Syria, the ouster of the Honduran president, the ouster of the Paraguayan president, goes on and on and on”.

“Hillary Clinton – or as I call her crooked Hillary Clinton, crooked as they come – refuses to even say the words radical Islam”, he said, adding, “This alone makes her unfit to be president”.

“And I know how important it is to get off to a really good start in the White House”, she said. Jeff Merkley of OR, the one Senate Democrat to endorse Sanders, said Clinton was the nominee and offered his congratulations.