US President Obama endorses Hillary Clinton for President
Warren, appearing on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show on Thursday night, said she had not spoken with Clinton about the vice presidential slot. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and later with Vice President Joe Biden.
POLITICO Playbook on Friday quoted “Democratic insider” who said there is “no way in hell” Warren is getting picked as the vice president.
Describing Trump as someone who “doesn’t hold women in high regard”, Clinton launched into an unabashedly feminist attack on her GOP rival, arguing he would take the country back to “when abortion was illegal, women had far fewer options, and life for too many women and girls was limited”.
“I hear he’s going to take a lot of time, during our time, when he’s supposed to be looking at trade and the military and all of these things, and he’s going to campaign for Crooked Hillary”.
“He wants four more years of Obama – but nobody else does!” the presumptive Republican nominee added.
Clinton’s campaign tweeted a brash response: “Delete your account”.
The White House taped Obama’s endorsement video at the White House on Tuesday, before Clinton claimed victory in the primary, and had alerted Sanders earlier in the week that it was coming.
The US presidential race shifted to the nation’s capital, with Democrats executing a carefully orchestrated plan to unify their party around presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton.
Mr Merkley said he believes that Mr Sanders will step down after the final democratic primary in Washington DC on 14 June and support Ms Clinton.
Leaders on Capitol Hill underscored Obama’s message.
“I think we do need to change the primary and caucus system in a profound way”, he said.
A day after formally endorsing Hillary Clinton, Sen.
In a rapid sequence of events in Washington that contrasted with renewed rancor among Republicans, Sanders emerged from the Oval Office peace talks with the president to say he was now prepared to meet Clinton and work with her after losing Tuesday’s primary elections.
Cameras captured Warren exiting a blue SUV with legislative director Jon Donenberg and heading into Clinton’s Whitehaven residence Friday morning, more than an hour before Clinton was scheduled to deliver remarks at the Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
There is one party member who might sway Sanders supporters: Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Republicans have consistently criticized Clinton over her email use.
Trump implied that Curiel, the Hispanic-American judge, was biased against him because of Trump’s proclamation that he would build a wall along the border between America and Mexico to halt illegal immigration. I know how hard this job can be, that’s why I know Hillary will be so good at it. They later made peace, as Clinton became his first secretary of state.