Sen. Bernie Sanders says he's open to help from Hillary Clinton's superdelegates in his bid to win the Democratic nomination for president at the party's convention in Philadelphia this July.
The Vermont senator, appearing Thursday on
"The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC, also bristled at suggestions he drop out of the race to give Hillary Clinton a clear shot.
"We think if we come into the convention … having won a whole lot of delegates, having a whole lot of momentum behind us, and most importantly perhaps being the candidate who is most likely to defeat Donald Trump, we think that some of these superdelegates who have now supported Hillary Clinton can come over to us," Sanders said.
The New York Times reported this week that President Barack Obama told a group of Democratic donors that Sanders was nearing the end of his campaign and the party must unite back to Clinton.
Absolutely not, according to Sanders.
"When only half of the American people have participated in the political process, when [in] some of the larger states in this country, people in those states have not yet been able to voice their opinion … I think it's absurd for anybody to suggest that those people not have a right to cast a vote," Sanders told Maddow.
"I am extremely proud that in state after state we are winning the votes of working people," Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, said. "So to suggest we don't fight this out to the end would be, I think, a very bad mistake."
As of Friday, Clinton has won 1,147 delegates and Sanders has won 856. A total of 2,383 needed to win the nomination.
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