Behind the scenes: How Hillary won over Bernie [View all]
It was an endorsement nearly one month in the making. Bernie Sanders’s vocal backing of Hillary Clinton on Tuesday in Portsmouth, N.H., came after weeks of delicate conversations between the two camps, sources say.
Those talks — which involved Clinton, Sanders and his wife, Jane, and top campaign officials — centered on the question of how to continue pushing the progressive agenda that both candidates touted during their long, and at times bitter, presidential primary battle.
A critical moment in the process, Clinton aides said Tuesday, was the meeting between the two candidates last month at the Washington Hilton. The talk helped to break the ice, with Sanders campaign manger Jeff Weaver and Clinton manager Robby Mook staying at the hotel for another two hours to discuss how they could bring the two sides together, including on issues like Sanders's preference for tuition-free college.
In the weeks after that initial meeting, Mook and Weaver continued the conversation in a string of calls and text messages. Last month, they had a one-on-one dinner at the Farmhouse Tap and Grill in Burlington, Vt., one Clinton aide said.
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