Hillary endorses Biden during virtual town hall, continuing roll out of high profile endorsements

Hillary Clinton endorses Joe Biden for president Tuesday afternoon during a virtual “Women’s Town Hall.”

"It's a real pleasure to be here with you and to be part of this very important discussion," Clinton said. "And I am thrilled to be part of your campaign to not only endorse you, but to help highlight a lot of the issues that are at stake in this presidential election."

The former secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee teased the endorsement on her Twitter account with a picture of herself and the former vice president embracing in the Oval Office.

Clinton chose to stay away from Biden’s primary campaign, saying she would ultimately support whoever the party nominated. However, in a documentary about her life released this winter, Clinton admitted she still harbored anger toward Bernie Sanders, her 2016 primary opponent. “Nobody likes Sanders,” she said in the documentary.

President Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, responded to news of the Clinton endorsement by saying, “Both of them carry the baggage of decades in the Washington swamp and both of them schemed to keep the Democrat nomination from Bernie Sanders.”

A lawyer for the Sanders campaign recently sent a letter to the New York Board of Elections asking them not to cancel the state’s presidential primary, which they did anyway. The suspended Sanders campaign is still hoping to harness the power of already collected delegates and widespread factional support to leverage a more progressive party agenda at the convention.

Clinton is the latest major Democratic politician to roll out a virtual endorsement for Biden. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi kicked off the week with her own hearty endorsement video for the former vice president. Notably, the top female lawmakers in the party appear to be the ones being touted during a moment when more questions begin to mount around former Biden aide Tara Reade's accusations of sexual assault against the presidential candidate.