Clinton Won’t Make Efforts to Court Sanders’ Voters, Expects Bernie to Rally Them

CLINTON: "Let’s look what happened in 2008 because that’s the closest example. Then Senator Obama and I ran a really hard race. It was so much closer than the race right now between me and senator Sanders. We had pretty much the same amount of popular vote by some measures I had slightly more popular vote. He had slightly more pledged delegates. We got to the end in June and I did not put down conditions. I didn’t say you know what, if Senator Obama does X, Y and Z maybe I’ll support him. I said I am supporting Senator Obama because no matter what our differences might be they pale in comparison to the differences between us and the Republicans. That’s what I did. At that time 40% of my supporters said they would not support him so from the time I withdrew until the time I nominated him, I spent an enormous amount of time convincing my supporters to support him and I’m happy to say the vast majority did. That is what I think one does. That is certainly what I did and I hope that we will see the same this year."