Meetings could lead to Clinton-Sanders joint event

Meanwhile the victor of this nomination fight, Clinton, is happy to allow all those details to work themselves out.

She has not included his name on a list of possible vice presidents, and left-leaning MA senator Elizabeth Warren is speculated to be the favourite – the pair would be the first two-woman ticket in either party’s history.

CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett reported the Vermont senator will endorse Clinton next Tuesday in New Hampshire and bring the Democratic Party together before Donald Trump and Republicans meet for their convention. Last week, a draft was released that revealed various details on the party’s plans for a number of wide-ranging issues, like the economy, terrorism and universal healthcare.

Clinton’s campaign, the source added, is also coordinating planning with the Democratic National Committee to maximize the impact of a Sanders endorsement and to demonstrate party unity ahead of the Republican National Convention the week after next.

“The (platform’s) language now is unacceptable”, Hasan Solomon, the legislative director of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, told Reuters. The Democratic Platform proposes to “make community college free” for all, which constitutes only half of the Sanders’ proposal.

The survey found 56 percent of registered voters believe Clinton is “personally qualified to be president” and 30 percent said the same about Trump.

This is on par with President Barack Obama’s lead among Hispanics at similar points in the past two campaigns. Others, like New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker, get high marks from Clinton voters, but are still unknown to most of the public. Both camps picked the town not only for the symbolism of the name but the two candidates tied in the popular vote of this Sullivan County hamlet. Given Sanders’ early victory in the state, it makes sense that he’d go there to admit defeat.

Bernie Sanders also opened the interview by answering Wolf Blitzer when he asked Bernie if he was still a presidential candidate, and Bernie said “we have 1,900 delegates and we are off to Philadelphia [for the DNC] in a few weeks”. Ms Clinton, Mr Sanders and Ms Warren have mocked his qualifications to be president and called him a “money grubber”.