Sanders says he’ll vote for Clinton, but no endorsement yet

During an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Bernie Sanders announced that he will vote for his rival Hillary Clinton in November to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president.

“Even though Hillary (Clinton) has the super delegates, there are still a lot of people out there that support Bernie”, she said.

In a video address last week, Sanders hinted that he may be willing to heed the call to drop out, saying that he play his role defeating presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “in a very short period of time”. “We do not need a president who’s cornerstone of his campaign is bigotry, is insulting Mexicans and Latinos and Muslims and women”. In the past two weeks, the race for the Democratic Partys 2016 presidential nomination has evolved from relatively civil disagreement over policy into a contentious winter competition between Clinton and Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont.

Sanders suggested on CNN that his decision on whether to endorse could come after the Democratic National Committee wraps up its platform in Orlando, Florida, on July 8-9.

On Wednesday, Trump reached out to Sanders supporters in an attempt to convert their dissatisfaction with the Democratic party into support for his own campaign.

But Sanders did not concede to or praise Clinton, something many Democrats would like to see before the Democratic National Convention next month to fully unify the party heading into the heat of the fall campaign.

“I would love her to say that, and I would love her to move forward aggressively to make that happen”, he said. Instead, 22% say they’ll vote for Trump, while 18% favor Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson. In addition to calling for the descheduling of marijuana and pushing the federal government to respect state cannabis laws, Sanders said he would personally vote for legalization if it were on the ballot in his state.

“Our goal from day one has been to transform this nation and that is the fight we are going to continue”, Sanders said.

Mr Sanders admitted only this week: “It doesn’t appear that I’m going to be the nominee”. “This is not somebody who should become president”.

He said the party should be go into the convention “prepared to have an agenda that speaks to the need of creating millions of jobs, raising the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour, dealing with climate change, dealing with pay equity”.