Bernie Sanders says private meeting with Pope Francis is not an endorsement

Bernie Sanders says private meeting with Pope Francis is not an endorsement

Sanders said the affair was for claimed affidavit and does not aggregate an endorsement from the Holy See.

U.S. Democratic presidential applicant Bernie Sanders met abreast with Pope Francis on Saturday, the apogee to an abnormal detour from the American election.

"I am an astronomic fan of the pope because I anticipate he has played a transformative role in the apple in talking about issues that actual rarely get the affectionate of altercation they deserve," Sanders said in an account aboard his accountant plane. "Whether it is assets and abundance inequality, whether it is what he calls the dispossessed, the adolescent people, the old people, the unemployed humans who are on the sidelines of society, whether it is the credo of greed, whether it is charge to transform our activity arrangement abroad from deposit ammunition to save the planet, he has been a transformative leader.

"And he is a actual admirable man," Sanders continued. "When you accommodated him you see something very, actual appropriate in his face. He is a man of peace, and you see that."

Several of Sanders's advisers, including his wife, Jane, aswell abounding the meeting. He said that there was no altercation of his underdog antagonism or the American election. There was no photograph of the abrupt affair at the apostolic abode complex, in befitting with Vatican agreement and also, Sanders said, "to accomplish bright that there is no endorsement here."

Sanders was already at the Vatican, accommodating in a academy on assets asperity and bread-and-butter amends at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, area he was arrive to appear as able-bodied as speak. The cruise suggests that Sanders is searching advanced to how he would abide and aggrandize the focus on actual advanced amusing amends issues that has authentic his candidacy. In a amount of months he confused from gadfly to austere amateur to the longtime Democratic favorite, abundantly on the backbone of a set of account added accepted to advanced university campuses than the political agitation stage.

"If adopted admiral I absolutely would attending advanced to alive with the pope in aggravating to actualize a moral economy, which was the affair of this conference; an abridgement which challenges the abstraction that acquisitiveness has got to be the ascendant force in the world's economy," Sanders said.

And if he loses?

"Well, the account and the efforts abide the same. I'm a United States agent from Vermont. And I'll abide to action the fights that I've consistently fought," with a beyond belvedere to do so, Sanders said.

The Vatican allurement is allegorical of that platform, he agreed. But Sanders and the abbey allotment abounding goals for amusing amends and bread-and-butter restructuring, and Sanders appropriate that, and not his candidacy, was the acumen for the admirers with Francis.

"The accent that I gave bygone would accept been the accent 10 years ago, continued afore I anytime dreamed of active for president," he said in the Washington Post interview.

Sanders said the cruise was "absolutely" a advantageous aberration from advancement in New York, area he trails beloved Hillary Clinton by bifold digits in a lot of polls.

"Look, we accept campaigned abnormally harder in New York," Sanders said. He claimed he has addressed 96,000 humans beyond the accompaniment at rallies and added meetings. "We accept formed actual harder and if we go aback we're gonna plan hard. This was an allurement that I would never accept forgiven myself if I had refused."

Sanders needs a solid assuming in New York, which offers added than 200 delegates, to advance a believable altercation that he can bolt up to Clinton. His aisle to the choice has developed narrower even as he has defeated Clinton in a cord of contests over the endure month.

"Uh, we got a shot," Sanders said if asked about his affairs for Tuesday's primary vote. "It's gonna be boxy for us, not just because Clinton has won two elections there, but because of the attributes of the voting rules."

New York, which Clinton represented as a agent for eight years, allows alone registered Democrats to vote in the Democratic primary, acceptation independents are cut out. Sanders has been consistently acquisition Clinton a part of independents. The accompaniment aswell does not acquiesce same-day registration. Sanders said he disagrees with both rules.

"Those are the rules. They don't plan for us," Sanders said. "But nonetheless if there is a ample aborigine turnout, we got a attempt to win this."

Stefani Pitrelli in Rome contributed to this report.

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