Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Elizabeth Warren endorse Hillary Clinton for President

Pre­sump­tive Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee Hillary Clin­ton picked up a trio of impor­tant endorse­ments today, earn­ing the sup­port from Pres­i­dent Barack Oba­ma, Vice Pres­i­dent Joe Biden, and Sen­a­tor Eliz­a­beth Warren.

The Pres­i­dent went first, endors­ing Clin­ton in a video record­ed on Tues­day and released ear­li­er today by Clin­ton’s cam­paign.

“Look, I know how hard this job can be,” Oba­ma said in the video. “That’s why I know Hillary will be so good at it. In fact, I don’t think there’s ever been some­one so qual­i­fied to hold this office. She’s got the courage, the com­pas­sion and the heart to get the job done. And I say that as some­body who had to debate her more than twen­ty times. Even after our own hard-fought cam­paign, in a tes­ta­ment to her char­ac­ter, she agreed to serve her coun­try as sec­re­tary of state.”

Joe Biden infor­mal­ly fol­lowed suit hours lat­er at the Amer­i­can Con­sti­tu­tion Soci­ety, not­ing that the next Pres­i­dent may be fill­ing mul­ti­ple Supreme Court vacan­cies. “[W]hoever the next pres­i­dent is, and in my view, God will­ing, it’ll be Sec­re­tary Clin­ton,” Biden said.

And influ­en­tial Demo­c­rat Eliz­a­beth War­ren added her endorse­ment as the day drew a close, speak­ing to The Boston Globe and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

“I’m ready,” War­ren told The Globe. “I’m ready to jump in this fight and make sure that Hillary Clin­ton is the next pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States and be sure that Don­ald Trump gets nowhere near the White House.”

“I’m sup­port­ing Hillary Clin­ton because she’s a fight­er, a fight­er with guts,” War­ren added. She told Rachel Mad­dow that the tim­ing of her deci­sion to endorse was influ­enced in part by con­ver­sa­tions she’d had with Bernie Sanders.

“We need to start think­ing about all of us togeth­er… Hillary Clin­ton won,” War­ren said, when Mad­dow asked for her thoughts on Sanders’ exit from the pres­i­den­tial con­test. War­ren hint­ed she believes Sanders should bow out and begin help­ing uni­fy the par­ty. Jon Favreau has sug­gest­ed that Sanders plans to do so in his own way and at his own speed, tweet­ing Tues­day night:

If Bernie tru­ly intend­ed on con­test­ing the con­ven­tion, he would’ve kept attack­ing Hillary. He did­n’t. Just needs time to land the plane.

Asked by Mad­dow if Clin­ton had talked to her about being her run­ning mate, War­ren said no, adding that she loves the work she’s doing in the Senate.

(War­ren pre­vi­ous­ly opt­ed not to seek the Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­na­tion, clear­ing the way for Sanders to mount his chal­lenge of Clinton.)

War­ren has already tak­en on a high-pro­file role as Crit­ic-in-Chief of Don­ald Trump, lam­bast­ing him in speech after speech, includ­ing from the Sen­ate floor in front of top Sen­ate Repub­li­can Mitch McConnell, and most recent­ly tonight to the Amer­i­can Con­sti­tu­tion Soci­ety, where she was enthu­si­as­ti­cal­ly received.

White House Press Sec­re­tary Josh Earnest made it clear dur­ing today’s press brief­ing that First Lady Michelle Oba­ma also sup­ports Clinton.

“I think it is entire­ly fair for you to inter­pret Pres­i­dent Obama’s remarks in the video that was released today as con­sis­tent with the First Lady’s views of the cam­paign,” said Earnest. “The First Lady is enthu­si­as­tic about Sec­re­tary Clinton’s cam­paign, and you can cer­tain­ly inter­pret that video as a joint endorsement.”

“And at some point — I don’t know exact­ly when that will be — but at some point, I’m con­fi­dent that the First Lady will  have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to share her own views in her own words about why she believes it’s impor­tant for Sec­re­tary Clin­ton to suc­ceed Pres­i­dent Oba­ma,” he said.

Pres­i­dent Oba­ma and Sec­re­tary Clin­ton are sched­uled to joint­ly appear next week at an event in Green Bay, Wisconsin.