Sanders: It doesn’t appear that I’m going to be the nominee

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders admitted that he will not be Democratic candidate for the White House as he indirectly recognised Hillary Clinton’s victory in the race for the party’s presidential nomination for the first time in public.

“Yes, yes”, 74-year-old Sanders told MSNBC in an interview when asked if he is going to vote for Clinton in November.

Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.) came about as close to officially endorsing Hillary Clinton as he’s going to get on Friday morning.

With this comment from Sanders, he begins the long, slow pivot toward supporting Clinton, if for no other reason than to simply defeat Donald Trump. “I think Trump in so many ways will be a disaster for this country if he were to be elected president”. He had claimed Ms Clinton should not automatically expect that he would ask his supporters to vote for her.

“I want the media to see the thousands of people who are out here knowing we won’t get in and still showing our support for Bernie”, Favilla, and electrician from Queens, said. Sanders said in the interview that his focus was on representing at the convention the millions of people who voted for him and encouraging them to become part of the democratic process. Sanders, who had runaway fundraising success with mostly small donors, has repeatedly criticized Clinton for her ties to big banks.

The Washington Post’s John Wagner reported Sunday that even while Sanders’ presidential campaign has effectively ended, Sanders continues to travel with a crew of Secret Service agents that can cost taxpayers more than $38,000 a day. He proceeded to list a number of policy priorities that he’s made central to his campaign, saying “we need Democratic leadership to implement them”.

“I’m pretty good at arithmetic”, Sanders said.

On CNN, Sanders added some more historical context, but largely adopted the “Leave” campaign’s framing of what greater global cooperation had inflicted on the U.K. “If you look at the history of Europe in the 20th century you have a tremendous amount of bloodshed”, he said. Sanders picked up 108 delegates, while Clinton secured 139 delegates heading into the party’s convention in Philadelphia next month.