Video: Obama endorses Hillary Clinton
US President Barack Obama has voiced his support for Hillary Clinton to succeed him in the White House in a video posted to her website.
|||Washington - US President Barack Obama is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, he says in a video posted to her campaign's website after she secured the Democratic Party's nomination this week.
“I'm with her. I am fired up and I cannot wait to get out there and campaign for Hillary,” Obama says in the video.
He had been reluctant to jump into the race until the party's nomination was settled. Spokesman Josh Earnest had repeatedly deflected questions about when an endorsement would come.
Clinton's rival Bernie Sanders met with Obama at the White House earlier Thursday about the path forward for his campaign.
Sanders told reporters after the meeting that he would continue to campaign through the primary in the US capital on Tuesday.
He stopped short of endorsing Clinton, but said he will meet with her in the coming days and vowed to do everything he can to defeat Republican candidate Donald Trump.
Clinton on Tuesday declared herself the party's presumptive nominee after reaching the number of delegates needed to be named its standardbearer in November elections.
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