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Bernie Sanders to stay in presidential race until Democratic convention The democratic socialist   Bernie Sanders   will not abandon the US presidential race and will participate at the Democratic Party convention in July to get his message across, trying to influence the presumptive party candidate   Hillary Clinton   as well as the party. In a video, the Vermont senator, who no longer has a mathematical chance to win the nomination, pushes the party and his rival Hillary Clinton to adopt his progressive agenda,   Efe   reported. He also promised to take his agenda to the   Democratic National convention   in Philadelphia in July. Sanders, who met Clinton at a Washington DC hotel recently, vowed to "work" with each other in the coming weeks. He said defeating the presumptive Republican candidate   Donald Trump   "cannot be our only goal", but the Democrats must continue "our grassroots efforts to create the America that we k...

President Obama hopeful Bernie Sanders will wind up campaign in couple of weeks Barack Obama expressed hope that   Bernie Sanders   in "the next couple of weeks" will finally concede having lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton, despite having vowed to fight on through the party's convention next month. Speaking to late night talk show host Jimmy Fallon,   Barack Obama   said that on balance, Sanders's candidacy in the hardfought Democratic campaign was a positive. "It was a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to have a contested primary," Obama told Fallon during recording of an episode of The Tonight Show. "I thought that Bernie Sanders brought enormous energy and new ideas. And he pushed the party and challenged them. I thought it made Hillary a better candidate." He added, "My hope is, is that over the next couple of weeks, we're able to pull things together." The US president made h...

Clinton has delegates to win Democratic nomination: AP survey Striding into history,   Hillary Clinton   will become the first woman to top the presidential ticket of a major US political party, capturing commitments from the number of delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination. Clinton's rise to presumptive nominee arrived nearly eight years to the day after she conceded her first White House campaign to Barack Obama. Back then, she famously noted her inability to "shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling." Campaigning this time as the loyal successor to the nation's first black president, Clinton held off a surprisingly strong challenge from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. He mobilised millions with a fervently liberal message and his insurgent candidacy revealed a deep level of national frustration with politics-as-usual, even among Democrats who have controlled the White House since 2009. The former secretary of state, New York senator and ...

Hillary Clinton hopes to clinch Democratic nomination Ahead of Tuesday's key primaries,   Hillary Clinton   has exuded confidence that she will be able to secure enough delegates to become the Democratic party's presumptive presidential nominee. "I believe, on Tuesday, I will have decisively won the popular vote and I will have decisively won the pledged delegate majority," Clinton told   CNN   in an interview. After more than four months long presidential primary process, Clinton has 2,313 delegates and is short of just 60 delegates to reach the magical number of 2,383. Even if she is defeated by her sole rival Senator Bernie Sanders, who has 1,547 delegates, in some of the key states like California on June 7, Clinton is all set to get 60 delegates to   clinch   the nomination. "After Tuesday, I'm going to do everything I can to reach out to try to unify the Democratic Party, and I expect Senator Sanders to do the same. And we will come toge...

US presidential primaries: Bernie Sanders wins West Virginia by 15% points Vermont senator   Bernie Sanders   today won the   West Virginia   primary defeating Democratic presidential frontrunner   Hillary Clinton   by more than 15% points even as the former US secretary of state looks set to secure the party nomination. However, Sanders' win is unlikely to prevent Clinton from emerging as the presumptive Democratic nominee, given that she has a massive lead over him in the delegates count. At a campaign rally in Oregon, Sanders acknowledged that he has an uphill climb in terms of becoming the party's nominee, but said he would continue his fight till the end of the primary season. As a consolation, Clinton won the   Nebraska   primary, but she is not getting any delegate from it. The delegates were allocated in the March 5 primary, which was won by Sanders. Clinton received 10 delegates as against Sanders' 15. In the Republican party, t...

Hillary Clinton would be next US president, says Joe Biden US Vice President   Joe Biden   has said   Hillary Clinton would emerge as the Democratic party's presidential nominee and eventually replace Barack Obama at the White House next January. "I feel confident that Hillary will be the nominee, and I feel confident she'll be the next president," Biden told   ABC 's 'Good Morning America' television show in an interview, the excerpts of which were release yesterday. The full interview would be broadcast today. Biden's remarks hold significance given that the Democratic presidential primary is still underway. Such a comment from him is considered to be a step below endorsement by the White House. Last year, Joe Biden had announced that he will not run for US presidency. Clinton, 68, has a distinct advantage over her sole primary rival Senator Bernie Sanders, 74, from Vermont.