Watch Bernie Sanders Washington D.C. Rally Full Speech: ‘Struggle Continues’ As Sanders Campaign Hits Final Primary

Bernie Sanders vowed on Tuesday to continue his “fight” for the Democratic presidential nomination, despite absorbing losses in four of six states that voted June 7, and he held a huge rally will in Washington D.C. on Thursday.

Scroll down this page to watch Bernie Sanders give his full speech at the Washington D.C. rally.

Sanders won a caucus in North Dakota Tuesday, as well as the Montana primary. But Hillary Clinton scored an upset victory in South Dakota, where Sanders was expected to have a cakewalk, and won New Mexico as well.

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Most significantly, Clinton also scored huge, landslide victories in New Jersey and California — though Sanders had pinned his hopes for a political comeback almost entirely on pulling off an upset in the Golden State, the largest state in the union, and campaigned there for 17 straight days without a break.

But California voters never warmed to Sanders message, handing him a thumping defeat by 13 percentage points and more than 400,000 votes.

The Clinton victories gave her an unbeatable majority of pledged delegates and made her the first woman to become the nominee of a major political party in the 240-year history of the United States.

However, Bernie Sanders never mentioned Clinton’s achievement when he took the podium at about 10 p.m. Pacific time at a rally inside a hangar at Santa Monica Airport, to deliver what The New York Times called “a speech of striking stubbornness.”

When Sanders did mention Clinton in the speech, congratulating her on “her victories tonight,” his supporters in attendance booed.

Earlier in the evening, in the moments after Clinton finished delivering her victory speech in Brooklyn, New York, the Bernie Sanders campaign sent out a mass email to supporters announcing the Washington D.C. rally on Thursday.

Despite no longer holding out any hope of winning the Democratic nomination, Sanders vowed to “fight” in the Washington D.C. primary next Tuesday — the final primary of the year — and concluded his speech by declaring “the struggle continues!”

To watch a full replay of Bernie Sanders election night speech in Santa Monica, click on the video below.

To view the full speech from the Bernie Sanders rally in Washington D.C. on Thursday, June 9, click on the following video.

Does Bernie Sanders have any chance to actually win the Washington D.C. primary, with its 20 pledged delegates? There have been no polls conducted in the nation’s capital, but Hillary Clinton is considered the overwhelming favorite in the race.

According to United States census figures, the District of Columbia population is 49 percent African-American, and with the exception of Michigan, Bernie Sanders has not won a single state or territory in which the African-American population exceeds 10 percent.

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and the district’s lone representative in the U.S. Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, have endorsed Hillary Clinton along with most city and local Democratic party officials.

Of the district’s 26 superdelegates — those same elected and party officials — 20 have said they will vote for Hillary Clinton at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia next month, compared to just two for Bernie Sanders, with four still publicly undecided.

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“I think the support here is because many of the older residents remember and they have talked fondly of the time when Bill Clinton was president,” said Washington D.C. City Councilwoman Anita Bonds, herself a superdelegate who endorsed Clinton on Wednesday.

“When you look at those who vote in the District of Columbia, they do tend to be the longer-standing residents who would have a history and perhaps a memory of that,” Bonds added.

Whether Bernie Sanders will hold a second rally in Washington D.C. that will stream live ahead of the primary that he appears certain to lose has not yet been announced by his campaign.

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