--- title: Bernie Sanders Hints at Price For Supporting Hillary Clinton description: He suggests that her support for his Medicare plan, and a tougher stance on climate change, would be on the table. canonical: https://time.com/4307384/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-nomination-support-2016-election/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-26T02:58:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:01.228Z article:section: Politics og:title: Sanders Hints at His Price For Supporting Clinton og:description: He expects backing for his Medicare plan, and a tougher stance on climate change og:url: https://time.com/4307384/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-nomination-support-2016-election/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa7bfc8c5cc635e7/6988909ae20a8747a2a90931/gettyimages-524198588.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4200 og:image:height: 2363 og:image:alt: Bernie Sanders Campaigns In Pittsburgh Ahead Of PA Primary og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sanders Hints at His Price For Supporting Clinton twitter:description: He expects backing for his Medicare plan, and a tougher stance on climate change twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa7bfc8c5cc635e7/6988909ae20a8747a2a90931/gettyimages-524198588.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bernie Sanders Will Support Hillary Clinton But He's Sticking to Some Key Demands > Sponsored content. 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After nearly nine months of on the campaign trail, Bernie Sanders’ message of political revolution is starting to break through where it counts._ by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Apr 26, 2016 2:58 AM UTC  Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally at the Fitzgerald Field House on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh on April 25, 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks during a rally at the Fitzgerald Field House on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh on April 25, 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Jeff Swensen—Getty Images by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Apr 26, 2016 2:58 AM UTC Bernie Sanders on Monday aired a stubborn position on the election: If he loses the Democratic nomination, he will help Hillary Clinton in the fight against Republicans. But he is not giving up on central parts of his platform. At a town hall meeting hosted by MSNBC on Monday evening in Philadelphia, Sanders was asked what he would do to mobilize his supporters to continue his policy proposals, assuming he lost at the Democratic convention. Sanders said that “If we end up losing,” it would be “incumbent upon \[Clinton\] to tell millions of people who right now do not believe in establishment politics and establishment economics” that she supported Sanders’ Medicare-for-all plan. “I think Secretary Clinton is going to have to explain to millions of young people and a lot of other people that climate change is a real crisis and incrementalism is just not going to solve it,” he added. Whether Sanders throws his support behind Clinton if she wins the Democratic nomination — and how enthusiastically he endorses her — will play a major role in determining whether his supporters end up backing her too. That will give Sanders some leverage, even if he loses the Democratic nomination, in shaping the party’s platform. Clinton is highly unlikely to embrace any of Sanders’ policy proposals, which would cost trillions of dollars over the next ten years. She has repeatedly rejected those ideas, saying that Sanders’ Medicare-for-all proposal would require the United States to scrap the Affordable Care Act and that his free tuition at public colleges would require compliance from Republican governors. The former Secretary of State said as much on Monday night, during her own town hall meeting. “I am winning. And I’m winning because of what I stand for and what I’ve done,” Clinton said. “I have 2.7 million more votes than he has. I have more than 250 more pledged delegates. I’m very proud of the campaign that we have run and the support we have gotten and of course we’re gonna work together.” She argued she has a better plan for regulating Wall Street than Sanders does, and pointed to the 2008 election, when she supported the then-Sen. Barack Obama.“I spent an enormous amount of time convincing my supporters to support him. And I’m happy to say the vast majority did,” Clinton said. Though both the candidates suggested they were taking a hard position ahead of the convention in the case that Clinton wins, Sanders also said he would do what he could to prevent a Republican from winning in November. “I will do everything in my power to make sure no Republican gets into the White House in this election,” Sanders said. ## Transcript [ APPLAUSE ] If the question is, can a Bernie Sanders, and what he stands for, and the fight for economic and social justice carry over to the general election, and millions of working people I think the evidence is that it can. Democrats love Bernie Sanders. Out of New Hampshire tonight, beating Hillary Clinton by 27 points- He is in vogue among younger voters, and they have a lot of passion for him. Democratic primary campaign that no one could have anticipated just a few weeks ago. There's never been another candidate like Bernie that can do what needs to be done. For me this is a life- time event. Raise your hands if you have not [ UNKNOWN ] with us before. Okay. Republicans win when voter turnout is low, when people are demoralized. That's the conditions that they do well in, so if in November of 2016 You have a demoralized, unenergetic base in the Democratic party, there is a decent chance that a Republican can win. If you have an excited Democratic base, and Independents, who are saying, you know what? It's time for real change in this country. It is time for a political revolution. Then we win. Voters are beginning to see Sanders as a possible nominee. Bernie Sanders is aware that African- American voters are not as familiar with him. He's really trying to figure out a way to introduce himself to African- American voters. [ MUSIC ] I don't think any president, not Bernie Sanders or anyone else Is able alone to address the major crisis facing this country. [ APPLAUSE ] The fact that we have received 2 and a half million individual contributions, unheard of, unprecedented. People want real change, so I think the message that we have Is a message for the middle class, working families, low income people, all over this country who are hungering and crying out for a very significant change in the current economic and political system. That the American people and young people Are prepared to stand up, to recapture our government for the big money interest. I want people to know what is going on in Congress to voice their opinion. Virtually all of the ideas that I am bringing forth, maybe all of them. Are supported widely by the Americans. You tell me. Hours a week deserve a living wage. [ NOISE ] How does it happen when overwhelming numbers of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents want to raise the minimum wage we can't get a minimum wage bill on the floor? Overwhelmingly people believe in pay equity for women. Overwhelmingly people believe in sensible gun safety legislation. Overwhelmingly the people believe that the wealthy should pay their fair share in taxes, so the question that you guys have got to ask is how does it happen that congress is far removed from the American people? I hope to bridge that gap. 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