Bernie Sanders meets President Obama at the White House
US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has met with President Barack Obama and said afterward that he would do everything within his power to stop his Republican rival Donald Trump from becoming president.
After the meeting with Obama on Thursday at the White House, Sanders said that he would work closely with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to prevent Trump from winning in the US presidential race.
Sanders gave no indication that he was ready to leave the race for the White House just yet, insisting that he would compete in next week’s primary election in Washington, DC.
“I will work as hard as I can, to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States,” Sanders told reporters, saying the real estate mogul “makes bigotry and discrimination the cornerstone of his campaign” and would be a “disaster” as president.
Sanders said he would continue fighting for the issues that were the platform of his campaign, including combating income inequality, college affordability and free universal healthcare.
“These are the issues that we will take to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July,” Sanders said, declining to answer reporters’ shouted questions about whether he would leave the race.
After the meeting with Sanders, Obama officially endorsed Clinton’s bid for the White House, saying she is the most qualified for the job.
Sanders will also go to the US Congress to hold a meeting with Senator Harry Reid, the Senate Democratic leader, who has endorsed Clinton and said publicly that Sanders should prepare to leave the race.
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