Former Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders endorses former VP Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential race. Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president on Monday during a livestreamed conversation between the two men, telling Biden “we need you in the White House.”
“I’m asking every Democrat, I’m asking every independent, I’m asking a lot of Republicans to come together in this campaign to support your candidacy, which I endorse,” Sanders said.
The Vermont senator exited the Democratic primary on Wednesday, effectively making Biden the apparent nominee to take on President Donald Trump in November.
The endorsement was expected, though the timing was a surprise, and could give Biden a boost as he seeks to rally the party’s young liberals who backed Sanders in 2016 and again in 2020.
Biden called the endorsement a “big deal,” including to him personally.
“If I am the nominee, which it looks like now you just made me, I am going to need you, not just to win the campaign, but to govern,” Biden said. The former rivals appeared via split screen in an online conversation that lasted about half an hour.
Sanders’ endorsement of Biden comes far earlier in the cycle than the Vermont lawmaker’s 2016 endorsement of Hillary Clinton, who bested Sanders for the nomination that year.
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