The Clinton campaign has announced a campaign stop Tuesday in New Hampshire, a general-election battleground state, but provided no details about the event. The setting is the likely venue for Sanders's endorsement, according to several Democrats, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the planning more freely.

In February, Sanders won the New Hampshire Democratic primary convincingly over Clinton, and it is a state where she could use his help rallying his supporters in a general election against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

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On Wednesday, Clinton announced her support for providing free tuition at public colleges and universities to families making up to $125,000 a year — a major nod to a free-tuition-for-all proposal pushed by Sanders during his campaign that was wildly popular among younger voters.

The two campaigns have also been in talks over health-care policy and are expected to make an announcement in the coming days about that issue, according to aides to the two candidates. During the primaries, Sanders touted a universal “Medicare-for-all” plan that Clinton is not expected to embrace — but there are steps short of that that could probably satisfy the Sanders camp.

In the month since Clinton effectively clinched the Democratic nomination, Sanders has also claimed some other victories in the Democratic platform, which a committee has been crafting in advance of the convention this month. At the urging of Sanders’s representatives, provisions have been adopted to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, abolish the death penalty, and expand Social Security through increased taxes­ on high-income earners.

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Sanders is also planning a big push at a Democratic Party platform meeting this weekend in Orlando to adopt an amendment opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal being pushed by President Obama but disliked by many pro-Democratic unions.

Sanders has increasingly hinted in interviews that he is preparing an endorsement of the presumptive Democratic nominee. That included an appearance Wednesday night on MSNBC, when Sanders said reports of a possible endorsement next week were accurate.

For weeks, Sanders has made clear that he is committed to helping defeat Trump in the fall, but he has said his full-throated backing of Clinton would be dependent upon her adopting positions that could inspire his supporters.

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On Thursday, during an interview with Bloomberg View columnist Albert R. Hunt for PBS’s “Charlie Rose” program, Sanders said, “We have got to do everything that we can to defeat Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton,” adding: “I don’t honestly know how we would survive four years of a Donald Trump” presidency.

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The expected announcement from Sanders will come the week before Trump and fellow Republicans convene in Cleveland for their party's convention. The announcement is also likely to secure Sanders a prominent speaking slot at the Democratic convention the following week in Philadelphia.

Clinton’s stop Tuesday in New Hampshire comes during a week when she will also be campaigning with a potential vice-presidential pick. She is scheduled to appear in Northern Virginia on July 14 with Sen. Timothy M. Kaine (D-Va.), her campaign announced Thursday.

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The event with Kaine, a former Virginia governor and Democratic National Committee chairman, is planned two weeks after an appearance in Ohio with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), another name on Clinton’s list of possible running mates.

Aides to Clinton said that they have not nailed down a location yet for next Thursday’s event with Kaine in Virginia, one of eight battleground states where the campaign is airing TV ads in the race against Trump.

Both Kaine and Warren are among the potential running mates being vetted by the Clinton campaign. Others include Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro.

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Clinton’s joint appearance with Warren — their first of the campaign — was viewed by many as an audition for the ticket. While Warren electrifies many of those on the party’s left, Kaine is generally viewed as a safer pick. One knock against him is that he's seen as a relatively boring campaigner. Next Thursday’s event will provide an opportunity for him to counter that notion.

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