Biden: Sanders Is 'Going To Endorse' Clinton
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Vice President Joe Biden believes Sen. Bernie Sanders will support Hillary Clinton.
"Oh, I've talked to Bernie," Biden told NPR. "Bernie's going to endorse her, this is going to work out."
Sanders has yet to fully back the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, but said last week that he will vote for Clinton.
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The senator from Vermont told "CBS This Morning" that he has not yet endorsed Clinton because he hasn't "heard her say the things that I think need to be said."
"I want her to say that among other things we have a crisis in higher education, public universities and colleges should be tuition free, raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, greatly I believe that health care should be a right of all people," Sanders said. "I would love her to say that and I would love her to move forward aggressively to make that happen."
"At this point, to my mind, she has not brought forth the proposals that I think the American people need to hear," he added.
Biden will hit the campaign trail with Clinton for the first time next Friday in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The vice president told NPR that "vouching for her" is the best thing he can do to alleviate the sentiment that voters don't trust her.
"I understand the hardest thing to do is not writing the check. The hardest thing is vouching. When you vouch for them you say, 'I'm putting my reputation on the line, I believe this person is a good person, has character,'" Biden explained to NPR. "You're putting your rep on the line you're saying I think this person has character and that's what I'm prepared to do for Hillary."
A recent Quinnipiac University poll showed that Clinton only holds a two-point lead national over presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump – 42 to 40 percent.
