Barack Obama,Bernie Sanders

President Barack Obama walks with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., down the Colonnade of the White House in Washington, Thursday, June 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

(Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House hopeful Bernie Sanders announced Thursday that he will remain the Democratic presidential race through the party's final primary, despite rival Hillary Clinton having won enough support to be deemed the presumptive Democratic nominee.

The Vermont senator, who has long pledged to take his campaign all the way to the party's nominating convention in Philadelphia this summer, said he will "of course" compete in Washington D.C.'s Democratic primary next Tuesday.

His remarks came after sitting down with President Barack Obama for a meeting that many speculated the Democratic leader would use to encourage Sanders to exit the race.

While the White House has stated that Obama "believes that Sen. Sanders has more than earned the right to make his own decision about the course of his campaign," other Democrats have publicly called on the senator to concede.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who was also slated to meet with Sanders Thursday, recently said the Vermont senator needs to acknowledge that "sometimes you just have to give up," according to NBC News.

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