Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders praised President Barack Obama for being "evenhanded" in the Democratic primary race after meeting with him at the White House on Wednesday.

During a brief news conference following his private meeting with the president, Sanders said he believes Obama has been fair in the election without showing his 2016 rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, favoritism.

"What the president has tried to do, what Vice President Biden has tried to do, is to be as evenhanded as they could be," Sanders said outside the West Wing after the more than 45 minute meeting, reports The New York Times.

When asked if he thought Obama was biased towards Clinton in a recent interview with Politico, the Vermont Senator replied, "I don't believe that at all. I think he and the vice president have tried to be fair and evenhanded in the process, and I expect they will continue to be."

Sanders went on to describe the meeting as "positive and constructive." He also said they discussed domestic and international issues, "a little bit of politics" and the White House strategy for defeating the Islamic State.

"What he is trying to do is keep our young men and women in the military out of a perpetual war in the quagmire of the Middle East," Sanders said. "What he has tried to do, what I will try to do. is put together a coalition of the major powers, with the Muslim people."

He also noted that despite his differences with Obama over taxes and the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, he has still remained very supportive of his administration.

"There's no secret that we have, as is the case in a Democratic society, we have differences of opinion," Sanders said, according to CNN. "I was on the floor of the Senate disagreeing with him over taxes. We disagree over (the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal). By and large, over the last seven years on major issue after major issue, I have stood by his side to where he has taken on unprecedented Republican obstructionism."