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ByLisaLerer and Jill Colvin The Associated Press WASHINGTON The presi- dential race shifted to the nation's capital Friday, with Democrats executing a carefully orchestrated plan to unify their party around presumptive nominee Hill- ary Clinton. Her likely general elec- tion rival, Donald Trump, continued his months-long effort to win over the Re- publican base, with events wooing top donors and evangelical voters. With the primary con- tests all but over, a series of top Democrats formally announced their support for Clinton, headlined by the glowing endorsement of President Barack Obama on Thursday. Within hours, Vice Pres- ident Joe Biden and Mas- sachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren joined that effort, both backing Clinton and signaling to many of Sand- ers' supporters that it's time to unite around the par- ty's presumptive nominee. Clinton and Warren met privately for about an hour Friday morning at Clinton's home in Washington, inten- sifying speculation that the progressive stalwart may be tapped for the vice pres- idency. "If you really want to electrify the base you've got to get somebody who's been speaking to the base and is going to turn the base out," said Rep. Keith Ellison, D- Minn., one of Sanders' top supporters in Congress. He said he and other progres- sives would be thrilled if Clinton tapped Warren for her ticket. Democrats in Wash- ington are eager to unite their party against Trump and avoid a lingering in- traparty spat. Primary ri- val Bernie Sanders, who's vowed to take his political revolution to their national Democratic convention in July, has been stressing his determination to de- feat Trump, perhaps sig- naling that he may exit the race or at least shift his fo- cus away from Clinton af- ter the final primary elec- tion next Tuesday in Wash- ington, D.C. Clinton, meanwhile, de- livered her first speech since becoming the presumptive nominee, addressing advo- cates at Planned Parent- hood, the women's health organization and abortion provider. The nonprofit was a strong champion of Clin- ton in the primaries, giving her its first endorsement in their 100-year history. Describing Trump as someone who "doesn't hold women in high regard," Clinton launched into an unabashedly feminist at- tack on her GOP rival, argu- ing he would take the coun- try back to "when abortion was illegal, women had far fewer options and life for too many women and girls was limited." "When Donald Trump says, 'let's make America great again,' that is code for 'let's take America back- ward,'" she told the cheer- ing audience. Trump, who has also faced resistance from cor- ners of his party, addressed a gathering of conservative evangelical voters at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's "Road to Majority" confer- ence not long after Clinton spoke. Reading mostly from teleprompters, he delivered a sharp rebuke to Clinton, declaring her "unfit to be president" while vowing to "restore faith to its proper mantle" in the U.S. As he took the stage, Trump boasted of the sup- port he received from evan- gelicals in the Republican primary and touted his op- position to abortion rights and commitment to reli- gious freedom. In a new dig against her email scandal, Trump pro- posed "tough new ethics rules to restore dignity of the office of the secretary of state" and challenged Clin- ton to drop her support for increasing refugee admis- sions and instead support "a new jobs program for our inner cities." It was one of several ex- amples of Trump's burgeon- ing populist attacks against Clinton, whom he painted as indebted to big money. He claimed her immigra- tion, education and trade policies would harm work- ing families and "plunge our poor African-Ameri- can and Hispanic commu- nities into turmoil and even worse despair." "Her policies will be a crushing blow to all poor people in this country," he said. PRESIDENTIAL RACE BackinDC,Clinton,Trumpworktowardpartyunity ALEXBRANDON—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton smiles a er greeting workers a er a stop at Uprising Muffin Company, Friday in Washington. CLIFF OWEN — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Conference in Washington on Friday. By Robert Burns The Associated Press WASHINGTON Far from ending the two wars he inherited from the Bush administration, Barack Obama is wrestling with an expanded set of conflicts in the final months of his presidency, from Iraq and Afghanistan to Libya and Syria, with no end in sight. In Afghanistan, where a Taliban resurgence has up- set Washington's "exit strat- egy," Obama is giving the U.S. military wider latitude to support Afghan forces, both in the air and on the ground. The White House says U.S. forces are not taking on a new mission in Af- ghanistan but rather will "more proactively support" government forces. That amounts to an acknowl- edgement that the Afghans need more help than the Pentagon had anticipated last year, and it is a signal to allies not to abandon the U.S.-led coalition. Defense Secretary Ash Carter will be discussing this next week in talks at NATO headquar- ters in Brussels. The 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan are scheduled to drop to 5,500 by the end of this year, but the pace of that decline has yet to be decided. One factor in de- ciding future troop levels is the extent to which NATO allies are willing to remain involved in training and ad- vising the Afghans. Five years ago this month, in announcing the begin- ning of his effort to "wind down this war" in Afghan- istan, Obama declared that "the tide of war is receding." He had ended the U.S. com- bat role in Iraq, but since thenhasgraduallyexpanded a renewed U.S. involvement there against the Islamic State group. He also put U.S. warplanes in the skies over Libya in 2011 in the name of preventing a slaughter of ci- vilians, only to see chaos en- sue, and now small teams of U.S.specialoperationsforces have been involved in activi- ties there. Libya, along with Syria and to a lesser ex- tent Afghanistan, became a breeding ground for ex- tremism in a wider conflict against the Islamic State. The administration says it remains committed to a partnership with Afghani- stan to ensure that it does not revert to a haven for al-Qaida or other extrem- ists with global reach, as it was before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In a letter to Obama last week, several former U.S. ambassadors to Kabul and five retired U.S. generals urged that the president keep current troop levels through the end of his term, allowing his successor to consider next steps. 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