Shortly after a one-on-one session with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders at the White House, President Barack Obama released a YouTube video endorsement of the woman is now the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic party.
"I don't think there's ever been someone so qualified to hold this office," Obama said. Watch:
From the Associated Press:
Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs says that Sanders requested the meeting with Obama because he was "interested in his input." Briggs says Sanders considers Obama to be "one of the smartest people he knows" and was happy to receive his counsel during the hourlong meeting.
Sanders was meeting later Thursday with Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada and his successor, Charles Schumer of New York. Sanders was also meeting with Vice President Joe Biden at the Naval Observatory later in the day.
Thus Tweeted the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in response to the Clinton endorsement:
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