Democratic Senator Warren endorses Clinton for president

US Senator Elizabeth Warren has endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, after months of remaining neutral in the Democratic primary.

“I’m ready,” Warren said on Thursday. “I’m ready to jump in this fight and make sure that Hillary Clinton is the next president of the United States and be sure that Donald Trump gets nowhere near the White House.”

Warren, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, told The Boston Globe she is rallying behind Clinton because "she’s a fighter, a fighter with guts."

"I am ready to get in this fight and work my heart out for Hillary Clinton to become the next president of the United States and make sure Donald Trump never gets any place close to the White House," Warren , a former Harvard Law School professor, said on MSNBC on Thursday night.

Warren said Democrats need a leader like Clinton who can fight for them. "Having a female fighter in the lead is exactly what this country needs.”

"For 25 years ... the right wing has been throwing everything they possibly can at her. What she's done is she gets back up, and she gets back in the fight,” she stated.

You also have to be willing to throw a punch, and there are a lot of things people say about Hillary Clinton, but nobody says she doesn't know how to throw a punch,” she added.

Earlier on Thursday, Obama met with Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders at the White House, two days after rival Hillary Clinton reached the 2,383-delegate threshold and became the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee.

Hours after Obama endorsed Clinton’s bid for the White House, saying she is the most qualified for the job.

Sanders said after the meeting he would work closely with Clinton to prevent presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump from reaching the White House.

Sanders, however, gave no indication that he was ready to leave the presidential race yet, insisting that he would compete in next week’s primary election in Washington, DC.

Warren praised Sanders, saying the Vermont senator has helped bring in millions of voters to the Democratic Party.

"He brought millions of people into the political process. Millions into the Democratic party, and for me, that's what this is all about," Warren said.

"I also think what Bernie Sanders did was just powerfully important. He ran a campaign from the heart, and he ran a campaign where he took those issues and really thrust them into the spotlight."

Sanders has said one of the reasons he is staying in the race for the White House is because he does not want Americans to vote "for the lesser of two evils," in an apparent reference to Clinton.

Sanders, 74, has long argued that although he is losing the primary presidential race to Clinton, Democratic Party officials should consider how well he does with independents as one of the reasons he is better prepared to compete against Trump in the general election.

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