This weekend, rival Bernie Sanders said that he “absolutely” believed July’s Democratic National Convention will be contested, an outcome only possible if manages to recruit several hundred of Clinton’s unbound superdelegates by next month.
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Hillary Clinton will have enough delegates by Tuesday when a multi-state primary vote is to take place to make her the first woman presidential nominee of a major party in the USA, her close aide said today.
Clinton has 1,807 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses; Sanders has 1,516. He says so-called superdelegates shouldn’t be counted toward Clinton’s total and that he will work to win them to his side.
“They can shout all they want, those are the facts, and she has bent over backwards to be positive in this campaign”, Clinton said as Sanders’ supporters continued to shout.
“We’re going to have a very contentious campaign”, she said. Including superdelegates, Mrs Clinton has 2,357, while Mr Sanders has 1,565.
He said on Saturday that the Democratic convention would be contested.
She played down AP’s forecast, saying there were a number of primary contests still to win.
On Tuesday, Democratic voters will go to the polls in six states, including delegate-rich California and New Jersey.
“Sanders to do the same”, Clinton told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview on “State of the Union“. Where frontrunner Hillary Clinton – a former secretary of state – once held a big lead over Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the two now are almost tied.
“Do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of state and a foundation run by her husband collects many millions of dollars from foreign governments, governments which are dictatorships?”
Sanders has repeatedly said he will lobby them to do just that.
Clinton was the projected victor over Sanders in the USA island territory, according to NBC News.
Obama clinched the Democratic nomination on June 3, 2008.
Both Mrs Clinton and Senator Sanders campaigned in Puerto Rico in recent weeks, and both have put forward plans to help the island emerge from a debt crisis.
Hillary Clinton swept the U.S. Virgin Islands caucuses on Saturday.
In a letter to fellow Senate Democrats, Sanders said the House bill to create a federal control board and allow some restructuring of the territory’s $70 billion debt would make “a awful situation even worse”.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will give a speech at Sacramento City College on Sunday for a “get out the vote” rally.
