After polls closed in the Washington, D.C. Democratic primary Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) met in D.C. for what both campaigns described as a “positive discussion.”
Following a nearly two hour meeting, the campaigns released similar statements describing the conversation. Sanders campaign said that the two candidates had “a positive discussion about how best to bring more people into the political process and about the dangerous threat that Donald Trump poses to our nation.”
“Sanders and Clinton agreed to continue working to develop a progressive agenda that addresses the needs of working families and the middle class and adopting a progressive platform for the Democratic National Convention,” the Sanders campaign statement continued.
Sanders and Clinton statements on meeting tonight are nearly identical. Not an accident. pic.twitter.com/kB9aqGUp1x
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) June 15, 2016
The Clinton campaign said that the candidates “discussed a variety of progressive issues where they share common goals like raising wages for working families, eliminating undisclosed money in politics and reducing the cost of college for students and their families.”
The Clinton statement said that the two talked about “unifying the party,” but the Sanders statement did not, as NBC News noted.
Clinton won the Washington, D.C. primary on Tuesday night after clinging the Democratic nomination last week. Sanders has said that he will state in the race until the party’s July convention, and his campaign said this week that the Vermont senator will hold a live streamed speech on Thursday evening.
One of the our future president’s strengths is one-on-one discussions and relationship building. I hope and trust that they’ll be able to figure out a route in which Sanders will help to include his populist supporters in her growing coalition.
Just please hold the line on open primaries, I do not want Republicans and Independents voting for the leader of my party. And Independents, it’s not like there’s a lot of similarities anymore between the GOP and the Dems, get off the fence and pick a side if it means that much to you.
Pretty sure you meant clinching, not clinging.
The candidate with the most competent and the most progressive record won. There is no issue other than a minimum wage, where Hillary allows some states with lesser economies a way to have a lower wage, where Sanders is more progressive. Since there are no “real differences” in their stands other than gun control, what is Sanders doing? Seems like an ego trip.
So are we only going to “reform” practices that did not favor Sanders? This primary cycle illuminated for me the travesty of the caucus.