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Bernie Sanders will meet with Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., as a step toward working with his Democratic presidential rival. "I look forward to sitting down with Secretary Clinton to see what kind of platform she is going to support and in fact how aggressive she is going to be in addressing the major crises that we face," the Vermont senator said in an appearance on CBS' Face the Nation.
So the canny 76-year-old is doing the next best thing as he heads into retirement after more than three decades: working the inside game as only he can, to ensure he leaves Democrats in control of the Senate, the White House and his home state of Nevada next year. Reid hand-picked the Democratic candidate to replace him, former Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto.
Bernie Sanders is making no mention of presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton at his rally in Washington, capping a day of meetings with President Barack Obama , Vice President Joe Biden and Senate leaders as the primary season nears the end. The rally comes hours after Obama announced his endorsement of Clinton in an online video and Clinton picked up the backing of prominent liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
People in this lakeside city that Bernie Sanders helped transform as mayor before embarking on a career in Congress are proud of the mark he's left in the 2016 presidential race even as they recognize that his White House bid is almost certainly going to fall short. The senator returned to Burlington, his hometown, after a week of major developments in the campaign: Hillary Clinton clinched the Democratic nomination, President Barack Obama endorsed her after meeting with Sanders at the White House, and the party kept up efforts to ease Sanders from the race while trying not to offend his many supporters.
Bernie Sanders is back in his hometown - Burlington, Vermont - where people are proud of the mark he's left on the 2016 presidential race. They also recognize that his White House campaign has fallen short, though the final primary is Tuesday in the District of Columbia.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to members of the media as his wife Jane looks on after an Oval Office meeting with President Barack Obama. June 9, 2016, in Washington, DC.
Saying he was in no hurry to see Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders end his campaign, Real Time host Bill Maher complimented the avowed democratic socialist for giving voice to a deep vein of passionate progressives who have felt left out of the political process. "I don't think it matters when he gets out," Maher began.
When accusations of using her PAC as a slush fund first arose in March, I wondered how Diane Russell would respond. After all, Russell- the current State Rep. for District 39 and candidate for the open State Senate seat for District 27- is known for her self-trumpeting style on social media, so I figured she would surely take to the Facebook and Twitter waves and vehemently defend herself against the potentially career ending findings.
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders' refusal to quit the race even after Hillary Clinton won the Democratic nomination could hurt Clinton's efforts to unify the party to win the presidential election, experts said. Clinton earlier this week finally grabbed the number of delegates needed to officially win.
President Barack Obama has officially endorsed Hillary Clinton's bid to succeed him and urged Democrats to line up behind his former secretary of state. It was all part of a carefully orchestrated pressure campaign aimed at easing her rival Bernie Sanders towards the exit and turning fully to the fight against Republican Donald Trump.
Nearing the end of a lengthy primary fight, Democrats are coalescing around Hillary Clinton's presidential bid and looking to reunite the party through a carefully orchestrated plan aimed at nudging rival Bernie Sanders to make his exit. President Barack Obama's endorsement of his former secretary of state on Thursday headlined a day of unity for Democrats as the party prepares for Republican Donald Trump.
Testifying to Hillary Clinton's grit and experience, President Barack Obama endorsed his former secretary of state's bid to succeed him on Thursday and urged Democrats to line up behind her. It was all part of a carefully orchestrated pressure campaign aimed at easing Clinton rival Bernie Sanders toward the exit and turning fully to the fight against Republican Donald Trump.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is expected to endorse presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Thursday evening, sources close to the progressive icon told CNN. Warren, who has at times been critical of Clinton, could help rally supporters of Bernie Sanders behind the former secretary of state so that Democrats can focus on pursuing a unified battle against Donald Trump.
With pressure growing for him to quit the presidential race, a subdued Bernie Sanders emerged from a meeting with President Barack Obama on Thursday vowing to work with primary rival Hillary Clinton to defeat Republican Donald Trump in the general election. But Sanders, speaking to reporters at the White House, stopped short of endorsing Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee.
After wrapping up his meeting at the White House, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says he looks forward to meeting with Hillary Clinton in the future to see how they can work together to defeat Donald Trump in November's election. Sanders did not endorse Clinton.
President Barack Obama waves as he boards Air Force One, Wednesday at JFK International Airport in New York. Obama traveled to New York for a Democratic fundraiser and tape an appearance on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
President Obama says he hopes the Democrats "pull things together" after Hillary Clinton became the party's presumptive nominee for president. Her rival, Bernie Sanders, has vowed to fight on despite pressure to step down from party figures.
Obama traveled to New York for a Democratic fundraiser and tape an appearance on the Tonight... . Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., takes the stage at a rally Tuesday, June 7, 2016, in Santa Monica, Calif.
JUNE 7: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives onstage during a primary night rally at the Duggal Greenhouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, June 7, 2016 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Clinton has secured enough delegates and commitments from superdelegates to become the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee.