Sanders, Clinton will meet after D.C. primary
Vermont senator wants party to adopt progressive platform
Bernie Sanders said Sunday that he will meet with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday evening to discuss what kind of presidency she will have if she wins the White House.
Sanders wanted to wait until the final presidential primary campaign in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday was over before talking to her. Clinton last week sewed up the majority of delegates before winning big victories in California and New Jersey to become the presumptive Democratic nominee, though Sanders remains in the race. Sanders said on ABC’s This
Week that he will talk to Clinton about a progressive platform for the Democratic National Convention and “if she wins, what kind of administration she will have and whether or not she will stand up forcefully for working families.”
Sanders said he wants to help shape a Democratic platform that includes higher taxes on large corporations and billionaires, tuition-free public colleges and universities, a stronger effort to combat climate change and a massive jobs program “to put millions of people back to work.”
The Vermont senator said he hopes to transform the Democratic Party from “raising money from the wealthy to listening to a declining middle class.”
Sanders promised to do whatever he can to help defeat Republican Donald Trump.
“It is incomprehensible to me that in 2016 ... that this man (Trump) is running his campaign based on bigotry,” Sanders said on ABC. “I will do everything I can to make sure Donald Trump doesn’t become president of the United States.”