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Obama hopeful Sanders will wind up campaign within a ‘couple of weeks’

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Barack Obama expressed hope Wednesday that Bernie Sanders in “the next couple of weeks” will finally concede having lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton, despite having vowed to fight on through the party’s convention next month. Appearing Wednesday on the “Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” Obama said that on balance, Sanders’s candidacy in the hardfought Democratic campaign was a positive. “It was a healthy thing for the Democratic […]

Sanders vows to keep up the fight

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) — Bernie Sanders, on Monday (June 6) vowed to keep up the fight in what has been a protracted and increasingly antagonized primary race that has exposed deep rifts between the left-wing and the more centrist of the Democratic Party. His rival Hillary Clinton has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination, according to tallies by two U.S. media outlets, the day before six states […]