Clinton, Sanders meet in Washington, D.C.


Just minutes after the polls closed in the last Democratic primary of the season, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders met Tuesday night at a Washington, D.C., hotel to discuss the future and the best way to defeat Donald Trump.
The pair was joined during their two-hour meeting by Sanders' wife, Jane Sanders, and his campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, and Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, and her campaign manager, Robby Mook. Before the meeting, Clinton's advisers told The New York Times she wanted to know how to go about gaining an endorsement from Sanders and whether he would ask her for any political promises; aides to Sanders said he wanted to know how committed Clinton is to progressive goals like raising the minimum wage. Two advisers told The Times that Sanders is worried that Clinton might tell him what he wants to hear now, but will take a moderate turn in order to win states like Ohio and Virginia.
In a statement released after the meeting, the Sanders campaign said the pair had a "positive discussion about how best to bring more people into the political process and about the dangerous threat that Donald Trump poses to our nation." The two also talked about "a variety of issues where they are seeing common ground," including campaign finance reform and reducing student debt, and "agreed to continue working to develop a progressive agenda that addresses the needs of working families and the middle class and adopting a progressive platform for the Democratic National Convention."
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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