White House gets campaign fever
The leaders of the two largest democracies in the world were holding a working lunch at the White House, but most of the questions at the White House press briefing June 7 were about who will succeed Obama in the Oval Office.
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Washington — The leaders of the two largest democracies of the world, US President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, were holding a working lunch in the White House Cabinet room. But as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton closed in on the Democratic nomination over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on June 7 and congressional Republicans distanced themselves from Donald Trump’s charges that a judge overseeing a fraud investigation of Trump University is biased because of his Mexican heritage, most of the questions at the White House press briefing were about the campaign over who will succeed Obama in the Oval Office.
“Is the president ready to endorse Secretary Clinton now that she seems to have enough delegates to secure the nomination?” a reporter asked White House spokesman Josh Earnest.