Sanders pledges to work with Clinton to defeat Trump

Author: CNN

June 9, 2016 at 13:51

The senator thanked both Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for showing "impartiality" during the course of the Democratic campaign.

Bernie Sanders on Thursday emerged f-rom a White House meeting with President Barack Obama and vowed to work together with Hillary Clinton to defeat Donald Trump in November.

Warning that a Trump presidency would be a "disaster," the Vermont senator -- who pledged to continue his White House bid even after Clinton became the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee -- said he would "work as hard as I can to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the Untied States."

"I look forward to meeting with (Clinton) in the near future to see how we can work together to defeat Donald Trump and to cre-ate a government which represents all of us and not just the 1 percent," Sanders told reporters after an Oval Office meeting that lasted more than one hour.

The senator thanked both Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for showing "impartiality" during the course of the Democratic campaign.

"They said in the beginning is that they would not put their thumb on the scales and they kept their word and I appreciate that very, very much," Sanders said.

He added that he will monitor a "full counting of the votes" in California, whe-re Clinton won the Democratic primary contest on Tuesday. The results will show "a much closer vote," Sanders predicted.

Sanders' high-profile meeting with Obama and his public remarks afterward come just days after Sanders declared that he intends to continue his 2016 campaign. At a rally Tuesday night, Sanders had declined to acknowledge that Clinton had secured the necessary delegates to win her party's nomination.

He vowed to forge ahead to the District of Columbia's primary next week, and then on to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

This decision has put Democrats on high alert, as they look to quickly change gears and take on Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

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