HENDERSON, Nev. - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Thursday defended his efforts to support his party’s presidential nominee in 2016 and said he would do the same in 2020 if he doesn’t win the nomination himself. The Vermont senator was asked by a voter at a campaign event in a Las Vegas suburb about whether he’d support winner of a crowded primary field, which has more than 20 contenders. Sanders said, “absolutely and positively yes,” but took umbrage with a member of the crowd who shouted that he failed to be supportive of Democrat Hillary Clinton three years earlier. In Nevada, which Clinton carried three years ago, the strains erupted in shouting at the party convention. Speaking Thursday in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, Sanders said that the other members of the Democratic field are all “good people” that he’d support if they win, but this time, he expects to be the nominee.

Source: thestar May 30, 2019 21:11 UTC