Hillary Clinton is inching ever closer to being the official Democratic nominee, but even after making concessions with her debt-free college plan, she has yet to win the endorsement of Bernie Sanders or the backing of many of his supporters. That may change very soon, however, as MSNBC host Chris Hayes suggested on Wednesday evening that Sanders may be ready to officially endorse Clinton as soon as Tuesday, and he had just the person to provide insight on that subject: Bernie Sanders himself.
Hayes presented Sanders with the fact that he simply wasn’t going to get everything he’s asking for from Clinton: “At a certain point, there are going to be some policy differences between the two of you that she’s not gonna come around on, because if she did, she would have run on them to begin with!” Sanders responded by finally acknowledging what he previously suggested in saying that he’d vote for Clinton.
Let me just say this. I got in the race obviously, to try to win. We’re going to Philadelphia, and Hillary Clinton has more votes than I do. She is the presumptive nominee, and that is just basically the fact. But what my job is to do is to do everything that I can to address the major crisis facing this country in terms of income and wealth and equality, the forty year decline of the American middle class, the horrific crisis that we face in terms of climate change, and I am going to use all of the leverage that I have to try to make those changes.
So Philadelphia, then? Sanders also went on to say that he would do everything in his power to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president, understanding that it would be an “unmitigated disaster,” not just for our country but for the world. At the end of the day, the guy still hasn’t forgotten about the big picture issue facing Democrats.