DHAKA: Bernie Sanders on Tuesday supported Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton saying that he is endorsing Clinton at a meeting in Portsmouth of New Hampshire.

Sanders said, ‘I have come here today not to talk about the past but to focus on the future. That future will be shaped more by what happens on November 8 ... than by any other event in the world’.

‘I have come here to make it as clear as possible as to why I am endorsing Hillary Clinton and why she must become our next president.’

Pointing to his rival candidate, the junior Democrat and also the longest-serving Independent Congressman further said, ‘Republicans want us to forget where we were seven and a half years ago... our economy was in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression’.

‘We have come a long way in the last 7.5 years, and I thank President Obama and vice-president Biden for their leadership in pulling us out of that terrible recession’, he added.

‘But I think we can all agree that much, much more needs to be done. Too many Americans are still being left out, left behind and ignored... There is too much poverty, there is too much despair.’

He further said, ‘During the last year, I have had the extraordinary opportunity to speak to more than 1.4m Americans at rallies in almost every state... and the profound lesson that I have learned is that this campaign is not really about Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders… this campaign is about the needs of the American people and addressing the very serious crises that we face. And there is no doubt in my mind that as we head into November, Hillary Clinton is far and away the best candidate to do that’.

However, Sanders campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination and won 22 state primaries and caucuses in the 2016 election.

While his campaign remains active, Hillary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee.

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