Sanders deserves say in party platform: Clinton aide

The campaign manager of US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has asserted that rival Senator Bernie Sanders deserves to hold sway in the Democratic Party's platform thanks to his strong presidential campaign.

“Senator Sanders has earned a lot of credit for first of all bringing attention to really important issues like income inequality, like campaign finance reform, like helping people afford college,” Robby Mook said on Tuesday.

“Those issues and all the work that his supporters have done deserve credit and those issues deserve attention in our platform, they deserve to be part of the dialogue in this campaign and his supporters deserve a place in the nominee’s campaign,” he said.

Meanwhile, Clinton and her aides were preaching the unification of the party in an attempt to apparently convince Sanders’ supporters to join them amid primaries in several states.

“It is really important that this entire party, his campaign and the Clinton campaign come together and unify in common purpose to keep the White House in Democratic hands,” Mook said.

Sanders has already signaled his willingness to fight for issues like a $15 minimum wage on the floor of the Democratic National Convention.

The comments were made at a time when American voters on Tuesday went to the polls in six US States of New Jersey, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and California.

The former secretary of state won the primary election in New Jersey with 57.6 percent of the votes over the Vermont senator standing at 42.4 percent, securing the number of delegates needed to become the Democratic presumptive nominee.

"To every little girl who dreams big: Yes, you can be anything you want, even president. Tonight is for you," Clinton wrote on Twitter shortly after she won New Jersey.

"We are on the brink of a historic, historic unprecedented moment," she said during a rally in California on Monday.

Clinton leads Sanders both in pledged delegates and superdelegates, however, according to an Associated Press count, it is no longer possible for Sanders to reach the 2,383 delegates needed to win the nomination based on the remaining available pledged delegates and uncommitted superdelegates.

The former First Lady was also the projected winner in New Mexico and South Dakota as vote counting was underway while Sanders is projected to win North Dakota.

The Sanders' campaign has said it can still persuade superdelegates to switch to him, although in practice superdelegates who have announced their intentions are unlikely to change their minds.

On the Republican side, Donald Trump won primaries in New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota, capping a difficult day for the presumptive GOP nominee.

Voting results in California as the most populous state are not known yet as more than half of Californians vote by mail.

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