President Barack Obama more or less told Democratic donors last Friday that Bernie Sanders´ time is nearly up in the presidential primary, and they´ll soon have to line up behind Hillary Clinton.

Clinton struggles with ´authenticity´, Obama reportedly said at an Austin, Texas, fundraising event but told donors that is not all-important to winning. And while he did not say Sanders should get out of the race, the president is said to have suggested that his continued candidacy could help Republicans.

The New York Times first reported the comments, backed up by three independent sources and a White House official who said

Hillary will be the most likely to follow Obama's plan and continue Obama's methodology. I would not be surprised if she consults him as what to do on many initiatives that he formulated. He sees her as the best person for the job, Sanders is nothing to him.