Sanders says he would vote for Clinton

Senator Bernie Sanders today said he would vote for his party rival Hillary Clinton in the November general elections to defeat Republican Donald Trump, but stopped short of fully endorsing presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
"Yes, yes," 74-year-old Sanders told MSNBC in an interview when asked if he is going to vote for Clinton in November.
Sanders, who gave a tough fight to 68-year-old Clinton during primaries, has not yet announced a formal endorsement of his party's presumptive presidential nominee.
In his interview, Sanders said he would work to defeat Donald Trump, the Republican presidential presumptive candidate.
"I think the issue right here is I'm going to do everything I can to defeat Donald Trump. I think Trump in so many ways will be a disaster for this country, if he were to be elected president," Sanders said.

"We do not need a president whose cornerstone of his campaign is -- bigotry, is insulting Mexicans, and Latinos, and Muslims and women; who does not believe in the reality of climate change when virtually every scientist who has studied this issue understands we have a global crisis. This is not somebody who should become president," he said.

"So your vote will be a vote for Hillary Clinton or against Donald Trump?" he was asked.
"What I am trying to do right now is to make sure that the Democratic party becomes the party that represents working people, not Wall Street, that is prepared to have an agenda that speaks to the need of creating millions of jobs, raising the minimum wage to USD 15.00 an hour, dealing with climate change, dealing with pay equity. Those are the issues that we need to have not only in a platform, but we need Democratic leadership to be implemented," he said.

"You said, you'll vote for Hillary Clinton, which means you won't vote for yourself. Have you accepted now that you won't be the nominee?" he was again asked.
"I'm pretty good at arithmetic, and what I know is that Hillary Clinton has more pledged delegates than I do, and she has a lot more super-delegates than I do," Sanders said.