{"id":23788,"date":"2016-09-06T13:02:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T20:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=23788"},"modified":"2016-09-06T13:36:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T20:36:25","slug":"bernie-campaigns-for-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/06\/bernie-campaigns-for-hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernie Campaigns for Hillary!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One excuse I often heard from former Bernie Sanders supporters is that his endorsement of Hillary Clinton was merely a pro forma<\/em> political exercise, and that Bernie would continue to fight for his revolution, without actually campaigning for her.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0906bernie\"Bernie Sanders returned to the Granite State Monday, delivering a speech packed with progressive ideals to an adoring crowd at the New Hampshire AFL-CIO Labor Day breakfast.<\/p>\n

Democratic Party leaders said the speech was the first that the Vermont senator has given on behalf of Hillary Clinton<\/strong>, who beat him for the Democratic Party nomination earlier this year, a victory that left some Sanders supporters soured on Clinton and the Democratic Party establishment.<\/p>\n

But Sanders urged the crowd of labor leaders, Democratic Party candidates and activists to work for Clinton<\/strong>. He did so in a 25-minute speech that began and ended with him thanking them for propelling him to victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary earlier this year.<\/p>\n

And he listed a number of issues — campaign finance, higher minimum wage, college affordability, expansion of the middle class, and pay equality — where he said Clinton would be preferable to Republican Donald Trump… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <The Union Leader<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Here is the speech Bernie gave.<\/font><\/p>\n