Sanders endorses Clinton for president

After an often bitter campaign, Sanders said he will do everything he can to make Clinton “the next president” of the US.

“There was a significant coming together between the two campaigns and we produced by far the most progressive platform in the history of the Democratic Party”, Sanders said.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens as Bernie Sanders endorses her at a rally in New Hampshire.

Bernie Sanders formally endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, ending a contentious primary season.

Mr Sanders said that he had the opportunity to speak to more than 1.4 million Americans at his rallies and he found that the campaign was “not really about Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders or any other candidate who sought the presidency.

The political revolution will keep going”, Stein tweeted in the hour preceding Sanders’ announcement alongside Clinton in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. That’s what this campaign has been about.

The 74-year-old Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, waged a tougher-than-expected year-long battle against Clinton, but she clinched enough delegates to secure the nomination in early June.

“I am proud to be fighting alongside you”, she said.

The Clinton campaign is vetting James Stavridis, a retired four-star Navy admiral who served as supreme allied commander at North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, as a possible running mate, the New York Times reported, citing a person with knowledge of the vetting process.

The MS-Paint style graphic is clearly aimed at (hopefully for Clinton) former Sanders supporters. “That is what Democracy is about”, he said. Sanders also successfully pushed to include an array of liberal policy positions in the Democratic platform, which a committee approved on Saturday. In his speech, he went on to sharply criticize Donald Trump, and praised Clinton for understanding the nation’s economic challenges, supporting a public option for health insurance, and listening to scientists on climate change.

During his turn at the podium, Sanders explained his long-awaited endorsement, saying “I have come here today not to talk about the past but to focus on the future”. Clinton said after Sanders spoke.

On the main pro-Sanders Reddit community, r/SandersForPresident, voters pleaded with their candidate to not endorse Clinton, whom they see as an untrustworthy establishment candidate, and vowed to not vote for her even with his endorsement. After Sanders’ endorsement Tuesday, Trump took to Twitter to accuse him of abandoning his supporters.

Clinton donated $10,000 to help Sanders get elected to the Senate, through a PAC. Sanders noted during the primaries that Clinton had called the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal the ‘gold standard, ‘ though she ultimately became a critic of the deal as Sanders ran at her from the left.

He drew large crowds to his rallies, filling large stadiums and sporting arenas with mostly young, educated white men and women fired up by his “Feel the Berne” campaign slogan. We become stronger when black and white, Latino, Asian American, Native American – all of us – stand together. Yes.

Sanders’ reluctance to support Clinton until now has generated criticism of his diminished role in the election and his lessened influence on Democratic politics.