Report: Sanders to endorse Clinton

Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders Sanders petition against trade deal gets 700,000 signatures Sanders to endorse Clinton next week: report Sanders calls for criminal justice reform after police shootings MORE will endorse Hillary Clinton for president next week, the New York Times reported Thursday. Sanders, who kept up his presidential campaign even as Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee, will back her at a campaign event Tuesday in New Hampshire, the report said. Sanders on Thursday signaled he is close to a formal endorsement, saying in an interview, “We have got to do everything that we can to defeat Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton.” “I don’t honestly know how we would survive four years of a Donald Trump.” Sanders’s remarks came during an interview with a Bloomberg reporter for PBS’ “Charlie Rose”/ The Hill. More here.