This image from video provided by the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign shows Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as he announces he is ending his presidential campaign (AP photo)Senator Bernie Sanders on Monday endorsed his longtime rival former Vice-President Joe Biden, a move aimed at unifying a Democratic Party long fractured along moderate and liberal lines ahead of the election match-up against President Donald Trump. Sanders cited the novel coronavirus outbreak as a reason for the party to come together behind Biden, the likely Democratic presidential nominee after the progressive firebrand Sanders suspended his White House campaign. As the last two standing in a bruising Democratic primary, Biden and Sanders represented the conflict raging within the party. Trump's re-election campaign used Sanders' endorsement to argue that Biden had moved too far left. “This is further proof that even though Bernie Sanders won’t be on the ballot in November, his issues will be,” Trump's campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement.

Source: The Telegraph April 14, 2020 19:07 UTC