--- title: Bernie Sanders: White House Meeting Ends With Vow to Stay In description: Bernie Sanders again said that he will work to defeat Donald Trump this fall though he intends to continue his campaign. canonical: https://time.com/4363007/bernie-sanders-barack-obama-white-house-transcript/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-09T17:01:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-06T09:27:05.384Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Bernie Sanders' Comments After White House Meeting og:description: "I will, of course, be competing in the D.C. primary." og:url: https://time.com/4363007/bernie-sanders-barack-obama-white-house-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb24d4b4b5dcd5d84/698897205f570f561ab21450/bernie-sanders-barack-obama.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. 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Bernie Sanders faced pressure from President Obama to step aside and unify behind Hillary Clinton._ by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Jun 9, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Jun 9, 2016 5:01 PM UTC Bernie Sanders again said that he will work to defeat Donald Trump this fall though he intends to continue his campaign through the Washington, D.C., primary on June 14. After meeting with President Obama at the White House, the Vermont Senator spoke briefly to reporters. Here’s a full transcript. --- > “” --- ## Transcript Thank you all. Let me begin by thanking President Obama and thanking Vice President Biden for the degree of impartiality they established during the course of this entire process. What they said in the beginning is that they would not Put their thumb on the scales, and in fact, they kept their word and I appreciate that very, very much. Our campaign has been about building a movement which brings working people and young people into the political process. To create a government which represents all of us. And not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors. We will continue doing everything that we can to oppose the drift which currently exists toward an oligarchic form of society where a handful of billionaires. Exercise enormous power over our political, economic and media life. This is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. We should not be having millions of senior citizens and disabled veterans struggling. To put food on the table because of inadequate Social Security benefits. We should not have the highest rate of childhood poverty of almost any major country on earth. We should not be having Americans in inner cities In rural communities. On Native American reservations, who have life expectancies lower than many people in third world countries. We should not be having many of our young people leaving college deeply in debt. We should not be having in this great country, an infrastructure which is crumbling when we have millions of workers prepared to rebuild that infrastructure. And in the midst of all of that, we should not be having a situation Where Wall Street corporate America and billionaires are failing to pay their fair share of taxes. These are some of the issues that many millions of Americans have supported during my campaign. These are the issues that we will take to the Democratic National Convention. In Philadelphia at the end of July. Donald Trump would clearly, to my mind and I think the majority of Americans, be a disaster as President of the United States. It is unbelievable to me, and I say this in all sincerity. That the Republican party would have a candidate for president, who in the year 2016, makes bigotry and discrimination the cornerstone of his campaign. In my view, the American people will not Vote for or tolerate a candidate who insults Mexicans and Latinos, who insults Muslims, who insults African Americans and women. Needless to say, I am going to do everything in my power. And I will work as hard as I can to make sure that Donald Trump does not become president of the United States. I will of course, be competing in the D. C. Primary, which will be held next Tuesday. This is the last primary of the democratic nominating process. The major point that I will be making to the citizens of the District of Colombia is that I am strongly in favor of DC statehood. The state of Vermont, in which I represent, has about the same number of residents that Washington DC has. Except we have two United States Senator, and one Congressman with full rights while DC does not. Now that does not make any sense. Also, I look forward to the full counting of the votes in California, which I suspect will show a much closer vote. Than the current votality. I spoke briefly to Secretary Clinton on Tuesday night and I congratulated her on her very strong campaign. I look forward to meeting with her in the near future to see how we can work together. To defeat Donald Trump, and to create a government which represents all of us, and not just the one percent. Thank you very much. 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