Maybe some of Bernie Sanders most ardent supporters should take a cue from Bernie Sanders himself, who met with President Obama on Thursday. Bernie Sanders Meets President Obama and Pledges to Work to Defeat Donald Trump:
Senator Bernie Sanders met with President Obama on Thursday and said afterward that he would do everything within his power to stop Donald J. Trump from becoming president — and would work closely with Hillary Clinton to make that happen.
After the meeting with Mr. Obama, which lasted more than an hour, Mr. Sanders gave no indication that he was ready to leave the race just yet, insisting that he would compete in next week’s primary contest here in Washington, D.C. However, he made clear that party unity was on his mind.
“I will work as hard as I can, to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States,” Mr. Sanders told reporters, saying the Manhattan businessman “makes bigotry and discrimination the cornerstone of his campaign” and would be a “disaster” as commander in chief.
As Greg Sargent of the Washington Post writes, It’s over: Bernie Sanders begins winding it down:
[A]fter his meeting with President Obama, Sen. Sanders started with this:
Let me begin by thanking President Obama and thanking Vice President Biden for the degree of impartiality they established during the course of this entire process. What they said in the beginning is that they would not put their thumb on the scales, and in fact they kept their word. And I appreciate that very very much.