{UAH} President Obama endorses Hillary Clinton for president

President Obama endorses Hillary Clinton for president

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President Barack Obama officially endorsed former Secretary of StateHillary Clinton for president on Thursday.

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Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders met with Obama on Thursday — days after many news outlets named Clinton the party's presumptive nominee.

Some pundits speculated that Obama would have sought to convince Sanders to drop out of the race, so the Democratic party could rally around Clinton in preparation for a general election battle against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.

"Let me begin by thanking President Obama and thanking Vice President (Joe) Biden for the degree of impartiality they established during the course of this entire process," Sanders said in brief remarks after his meeting. "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."

Two Sanders camp sources told CNBC that Obama had "signaled" he would make a Clinton endorsement after their meeting ended today.

Although the declarations of Clinton's presumptive victory were based on her delegate haul, Sanders is not technically eliminated from the race because he could theoretically sway the Democrats unbound "super" delegates to his side. Still, that would be a tough sell for the senator from Vermont: Clinton won more primary contests, more of the popular vote and more regular pledged delegates.

In a Tuesday evening statement, the White House said Obama had called Clinton to congratulate her on "securing the delegates necessary to clinch the Democratic nomination for president." Obama also called Sanders, the statement said, and made plans for the Thursday meeting — at the senator's request.

Despite Sanders' crushing losses in the delegate-heavy California and New Jersey contests, the senator's camp has given no indication that it plans to call it quits.

In a late Tuesday evening address from California, Sanders pledged to "continue the fight" into next week for the D.C. primary, and then on to the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.

—CNBC's John Harwood contributed to this report.

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