Sanders Says He'll Vote For Clinton To Defeat Trump

BALTIMORE, Md. (WJZ) -- For the first time since launching his insurgent presidential campaign, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (D) acknowledged Friday he will vote for presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to keep Donald Trump out of the White House.

In an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Sanders railed against the presumptive Republican nominee. "I think the issue right here is, I'm going to do everything I can to defeat Donald Trump," said Sanders, who told the hosts Trump would be a "disaster" if elected president.

"We do not need a president whose cornerstone of his campaign is bigotry, is insulting Mexicans and Latinos and Muslims and women, who does not believe in the reality of climate change -- when virtually every scientist who has studied the issue understands that we have a global crisis," he said.

Sanders, who remains in the president race despite trailing Clinton by nearly 400 pledged delegates and more than 500 superdelegates, vowed to continue his fight to bring the "strongest possible platform" to the Democratic National Convention.

"That means a platform that represents working people, that stands up to big money interests," Sanders said.

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