I’ll vote for Clinton: Sanders

Washington, June 24

Senator Bernie Sanders today said he would vote for his party rival Hillary Clinton in the November general election to defeat Republican Donald Trump, but stopped short of fully endorsing the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

“Yes, yes,” 74-year-old Sanders said in an interview when asked if he would vote for Clinton in November.

Sanders, who gave a tough fight to 68-year-old Clinton during primaries, has not yet announced a formal endorsement of his party’s presumptive presidential nominee.

Sanders said he would work to defeat Donald Trump, the Republican presumptive candidate. “I’m going to do everything I can to defeat Trump. I think he in so many ways will be a disaster for this country,” he said.

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“Your vote will be for Clinton or against Trump?” he was asked. “What I am trying to do right now is to make sure that the Democratic Party becomes the party that represents working people, not Wall Street, that is prepared to have an agenda that speaks to the need of creating millions of jobs, raising minimum wages to $15 an hour, dealing with climate change.” — PTI