Sanders says he will work with Clinton to transform democratic party

He left without making any remarks and headed back to Vermont.

He continued, “But defeating Donald Trump can not be our only goal”.

“Let me make it very clear if I haven’t 10,000 times previously”, Sanders told reporters at a press conference in Washington on Tuesday.

Before polls closed in Washington, where Clinton won with almost 80 percent of the vote, Sanders vowed again to do all he can to prevent Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, from reaching the White House - but he declined to endorse Clinton. With all precincts reporting, Clinton had 78 per cent of the district’s vote to Sanders’s 21 per cent, according to the city’s board of elections. Sanders was more successful in states that allowed non-Democrats to participate in the intra-party primary.

An early test of his clout will come Tuesday in Nevada, where a Sanders-backed congressional candidate, Lucy Flores, competes in a three-way primary.

“Bernie from the beginning has said that it’s not about him, it’s about the movement”, he said.

“What has to happen and what this fight has always been about is transforming America”, Sanders said. These establishment Democrats are not pledged to any candidate, which means they could shift support at next month’s Democratic National Convention, but the former first lady also enjoys a lead over Sanders of almost 400 traditional, pledged delegates. I’m open to that. “Yeah, I know that political parties need money, but it is more important that we have energy, that we have young people, that we have working-class people”.

President Barack Obama endorsed Clinton last Thursday, hours after meeting with Sanders at the White House.

Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton departs a discussion on national security during a campaign stop at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton, Virginia, U.S., June 15, 2016.

The Democratic convention runs from July 25-28. “Which, by the way, Sanders stopped doing a week ago after California”. All of these issues are issues that both Sanders and Clinton agree on. “It doesn’t happen overnight”.

With the final win, Clinton’s total count of pledged delegates rose to 2,219, which means that she will still have to rely on the support of controversial super delegates at the Convention to boost her over the winning threshold of 2,383 delegates. But what that will look like still remains unclear and Sanders has been soliciting advice from supporters on how he should take his campaign forward.

Sanders, a self-described Democratic socialist, has not yet dropped out.

Sanders had promised to stay in the Democratic race until the final vote was cast in the Washington, DC, primary, although he has stopped talking about capturing the party’s nomination and instead focussed on ways to advance his policy goals.

Clinton had already hit the 2,383-delegate threshold to clinch the nomination before the contest on Tuesday.

Sanders refused to say what he expected to get, or give, out of the meeting.

Clinton has suggested she isn’t anxious about winning over Sanders’ supporters. Debbie Wasserman Schultz as party’s chair.

Trump’s campaign seized on Clinton’s donations from the industry as proof that she would be unlikely to follow through. Sen Reid said afterward that Sen Sanders had accepted Mrs Clinton as the Democratic nominee.

Sanders hasn’t yet worked out the details of what he’ll be doing before the convention, his spokesman, Michael Briggs, said.

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Numerous biggest pharmaceuticals companies are also headquartered in areas of the country that are more heavily populated by liberals, like New Jersey and NY - another potential reason for the Clinton-heavy employee donations.