The 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president on Tuesday, NBC News reported. “Joe Biden has been preparing for this moment his entire life. I’ve been privileged to work with him over the last 25 years,” she added.
Clinton, who served as secretary of state under President Barack Obama, was the first woman to secure the nomination, and she is the latest political heavyweight to cast an endorsement in Biden’s favor.
She teased her endorsement in a tweet announcing her attendance at Biden’s virtual town hall on Tuesday discussing the impact of the coronavirus on women. She is expected to officially endorse Biden at this event.
Biden, the apparent Democratic nominee, accepted her endorsement in a tweet. “I’m with her,” he tweeted, echoing the signature phrase that Clinton popularized during her 2016 presidential campaign.
Clinton was the 2016 Democratic candidate who ran against President Donald Trump, just as Biden will do in November.
Her endorsement comes a few days after Biden received coveted endorsements from other high-profile political leaders, including former President Barack Obama, with whom Biden served, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who dropped her presidential bid after reaching near front-runner status at one point.
Biden built a near-insurmountable lead in pledged delegates after several key wins.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who ran against Clinton in the 2016 presidential primary, also endorsed Biden for president after dropping out of the 2020 race on April 8. Sanders, the last candidate to oppose Biden, urged his followers to vote for him in the remaining primaries so he could pick up enough delegates to influence the party platform at the Democratic National Convention, which is slated for August.
Earlier this year, Clinton slammed Sanders as a political hack who supports sexist attacks against his rivals. “He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him,” she said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in advance of a docuseries profiling her.
“Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.”
Clinton, who served as secretary of state under President Barack Obama, was the first woman to secure the nomination, and she is the latest political heavyweight to cast an endorsement in Biden’s favor.
She teased her endorsement in a tweet announcing her attendance at Biden’s virtual town hall on Tuesday discussing the impact of the coronavirus on women. She is expected to officially endorse Biden at this event.
Biden, the apparent Democratic nominee, accepted her endorsement in a tweet. “I’m with her,” he tweeted, echoing the signature phrase that Clinton popularized during her 2016 presidential campaign.
Clinton was the 2016 Democratic candidate who ran against President Donald Trump, just as Biden will do in November.
Her endorsement comes a few days after Biden received coveted endorsements from other high-profile political leaders, including former President Barack Obama, with whom Biden served, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who dropped her presidential bid after reaching near front-runner status at one point.
Biden built a near-insurmountable lead in pledged delegates after several key wins.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, who ran against Clinton in the 2016 presidential primary, also endorsed Biden for president after dropping out of the 2020 race on April 8. Sanders, the last candidate to oppose Biden, urged his followers to vote for him in the remaining primaries so he could pick up enough delegates to influence the party platform at the Democratic National Convention, which is slated for August.
Earlier this year, Clinton slammed Sanders as a political hack who supports sexist attacks against his rivals. “He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him,” she said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in advance of a docuseries profiling her.
“Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.”
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