Obama to meet with Sanders at the White House

President Barack Obama would stay “even-handed” in the Democratic nomination process according to Senator Bernie Sanders who has mounted a tough challenge to frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

The White House said later that Sanders would meet informally with Obama in the Oval Office on Wednesday and “there will be no formal agenda”.

Obama offered an expansive view of the campaign during an interview taped last week, tipping his hat toward Clinton but avoiding a full-fledged endorsement.

Sanders, an independent who often votes with Democrats on Capitol Hill, said Bloomberg’s interest in a presidential bid brought forth “one of the issues that I think galls the American people – that we’re moving toward an oligarchic form of society”.

Sanders told reporters after the meeting that he believes Obama will stay neutral as Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton compete for their party’s nomination.

But now that polls show Clinton may lose New Hampshire, and possibly Iowa, to Sanders, she is eager to have an additional platform to make her case in the final days, while Sanders appears not want to risk losing his momentum.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s campaign quickly agreed and Clinton’s spokeswoman said she would “be happy to participate in a debate in New Hampshire if the other candidates agree, which would allow the DNC to sanction the debate”. “I think the DNC and the campaigns should be able to work this out”. “But it’s also important to remember how far we’ve come in the last seven years under the leadership of President Obama and Vice President Biden”. “If you stand up for me, then I will stand up and fight for you”.

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“What I’ve said to my campaign is that I would look forward to another debate”, she said. Obama administration officials did not know when the president had last met one-on-one with Sanders, the New York Times reported.

The White House says Sanders and Obama first discussed the meeting at a White House holiday party in late December and aides have been working on scheduling it since. Barack Obama was kind enough to campaign for me, 2008, I did my best to see that he was elected and in 2012, I worked as hard as I could to see that he was reelected. Sanders, on Saturday, compared his candidacy-and the criticisms of inexperience and pie-in-the-sky ideas it has received from the Clinton campaign-to Obama’s, and predicted Iowans would also choose him.

“There’s no doubt that Bernie has tapped into a running thread in Democratic politics that says: Why are we still constrained by the terms of the debate that were set by Ronald Reagan 30 years ago?” The two had exchanged cutting remarks on the debate stage before, digging up past controversial issues as they tried to win the favor of the public.