Bernie Sanders set to endorse Hillary Clinton at campaign event

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s campaign has confirmed that her former Democratic rival Bernie Sanders will join her at a New Hampshire event&comma; where he plans to endorse her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s team is holding the event at a high school in Portsmouth&comma; New Hampshire&comma; tomorrow&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Sanders defeated Mrs Clinton by a wide margin in New Hampshire&comma; in the nation&&num;8217&semi;s first primary&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His endorsement will come a month after the final primary&period; Mr Sanders has pushed for policy agreements on higher education&comma; health care and a US&dollar;15 federal minimum wages&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some of those policies were included in a draft of the party&&num;8217&semi;s platform in Orlando&comma; Florida&comma; over the weekend&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Sanders has not yet confirmed he will endorse Mrs Clinton in a battle against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in the autumn&comma; but told reporters on Saturday that the two Democratic campaigns are coming together&comma; and urged them to &&num;8220&semi;stay tuned&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; Mr Trump is set to deliver a speech on veterans&&num;8217&semi; issues&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The address is his latest bid to set out his policy agenda and convince still-reticent Republicans that he has the discipline and control to mount a credible general election bid against Mrs Clinton&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump&&num;8217&semi;s 10-point plan&comma; aimed at improving veterans&&num;8217&semi; care&comma; will include allowing veterans to seek government-funded private medical care&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He is expected to say&colon; &&num;8220&semi;We made a promise to these heroes&period; You defend America&comma; and America will defend you&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump is also expected to hammer the Obama administration for the 2014 Veterans&&num;8217&semi; Affairs &lpar;VA&rpar; scandal over long waiting times for veterans seeking medical care and falsified records by VA employees to cover up the delays&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;The VA scandals that have occurred on this administration&&num;8217&semi;s watch are widespread and inexcusable&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he is expected to say&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;Fixing this corruption will be one of my highest priorities &&num;8211&semi; and it will happen&period; It will be fixed&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The billionaire will speak in Virginia&comma; not far from the USS Wisconsin in Norfolk&comma; where he first unveiled his plan to reform the Department of Veterans&&num;8217&semi; Affairs last October&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump is expected to continue making the case for veterans to use any doctor they choose&comma; including those outside VA centres&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His 10 steps will include overhauling current visa programs &&num;8220&semi;to ensure American Veterans are in the front&comma; not back&comma; of the line&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He will also pledge to discipline federal workers who abuse the system and appoint a commission to investigate the VA and present its findings to US Congress&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It is unclear how that commission would be different from the one that unveiled its findings last week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump has been working to repair his relationship with veterans since he suggested early in his campaign that senator John McCain was not a war hero because he was captured during the Vietnam war&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Trump also raised eyebrows earlier this year when he failed to immediately disclose which veterans&&num;8217&semi; 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