Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton reflected on her victories in an interview Wednesday and said she intended on “reaching out” to the supporters of opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
Clinton said that she had called Sanders Tuesday night after declaring herself the presumptive nominee following her wins in New Jersey and California primaries. The Associated Press had determined she was the presumptive nominee the night before.
Clinton said on CNN that she “totally” understands how Sanders’ supporters feel and she congratulated the Vermont senator on his “really extraordinary campaign” in her call to him. She said she looked forward to working with Sanders to defeat presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
“Senator Sanders has said he will work every day, every week to see that happen, so we’re going to be working to make sure that we have a unified party going into our convention and coming out,” Clinton said.
Clinton continued and said she would “reach out” to his supporters, adding that she and Sanders had similar goals for health care and minimum wages.
“I really believe a lot of Senator Sanders’ supporters will join us in making sure Donald Trump doesn’t get anywhere near the White House,” Clinton declared.
I’m feeling a little better, hearing this from Hillary herself. Unless she really felt it to be true (to a large degree), she’d have no reason to say this at this moment. Good. Thank you, Sec. Clinton and thank you to Sen. Sanders for starting to pivot to the larger task at hand.
Fall in love in the primary, fall in line for the election.
Everyone is still emotional and tautly strung but It will get better each day, future Madam President.
This is something I’ve been expecting all along. I have really liked the way Bernie, himself, has pushed the policy conversation in the way that he has. And I know that he is a true progressive and, to the extent he can make a difference (IMO, hugely) would not allow someone like Donald Trump anywhere near the Oval Office.
The die-hards who voted for Sanders but won’t vote for Clinton wouldn’t normally have voted for a Democrat. This is only anecdotal based on my Facebook feed but those that I know are libertarian leaners. No need to reach out THAT far
Nothing makes me feel better about this campaign than Hillary’s actions towards Bernie the past few days - she’s trying to reconcile with Bernie’s supporters, because she knows (and she’s always known, which is why she never adopted the Bernie campaign’s overtly angry tone) she needs them. A lot of her supporters - including a fair number of idiots on this website - took the same confrontational, almost teenaged tone that Bernie’s ACTUALLY teenager supporters had taken… and it hardened the divisions and hurt Hillary’s chances.
Luckily, the lady herself is no fool.