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“While Donald Trump is busy insulting Mexicans, Muslims, women, African-Americans and veterans, Hillary Clinton understands that our diversity is one of our greatest strengths,” Sanders said as he endorsed the presumptive Democratic nominee at an event in New Hampshire.

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Throughout his remarks, Sanders compared Clinton’s policies with those of the GOP’s presumptive nominee, warning of the dangers of electing Trump.

Sanders said that a Trump presidency would mean the minimum wage remains “a starvation wage.”

The Vermont senator also said the businessman would nominate Supreme Court justices who would push the country backward, adding that Trump’s position on healthcare is the “same old Republican contempt for working families.”

He also declared that Trump’s economic policy would “exacerbate income and wealth inequality” and that the presumptive GOP nominee “chooses to reject science” in not embracing the effects of climate change.

Sanders’s speech was a pivotal endorsement for Clinton, marking the end of her former rival’s holdout in an effort to swing his supporters over to her camp ahead of the tough general election match-up against Trump.