The Sanders campaign acknowledges it is unlikely he can switch enough superdelegates from Clinton to overtake her lead among the party insiders unless he is able to win a majority of the pledged delegates.
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She is all but assured of locking in her party’s nomination, a monumental step towards fulfilling a dream of returning to the White House as commander in chief, 16 years after serving as first lady to president Bill Clinton.
The Hispanic vote is key to the California result, which is why both Mr Sanders and Ms Clinton made their case on immigration at campaign events throughout the weekend.
“Combining them (pledged delegates earned in state-by-state race and superdelegates) at each phase of this contest is not an accurate picture of how this works”, said Wasserman Schultz in an interview with MSNBC in February.
There are four delegates remaining in Puerto Rico, but they can not be allocated until the vote count is finished.
Both Sanders and Clinton had pledged to help as the island’s government tries to restructure $70 billion worth of public debt the governor has said is unpayable.
Clinton has 1,812 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses, and Sanders has 1,521.
A report by the Boston Globe analyzed the campaigns of Republican candidate Trump and Democratic Hillary Clinton – and found that while Clinton paid her male and female team members a near equal wage, there appeared to be a bigger gender pay gap in Trump’s team. On Tuesday, she is likely to clinch the nomination with delegates from New Jersey’s primary. Some Bernie Sanders backers don’t like Clinton, but others don’t think it will be an issue.
“We’re judged by our words and our deeds, not our race, not our ethnicity, not our religion”, she said Saturday in Oxnard, California.
But as she reached the conclusion, her voice grew louder and emotional as she urged the crowd to vote and vowed to represent them. And it’s not that I believe that Sanders would be a better president than Hillary Clinton.
“It is time to focus on squashing ‘El Trumpo,”‘ he said, referring to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Hillary Clinton, now the presumptive Democratic nominee, will formally accept the nomination of the Democratic Party in July at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
Sanders – a 74-year-old senator from Vermont who was an independent until recently – has won 10 million votes during the primaries, 3 million fewer than Clinton.
Though Clinton did not spend much time campaigning in Puerto Rico, the victory is fraught with symbolism for her campaign.
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Advisers say he is intent on trying to change the Democratic nominating process, particularly the superdelegate system and the series of closed primaries in states across the country. “A house divided against itself can not stand”, she said. “He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and vast responsibility”, Clinton said last week in a speech that was striking in its forcefulness, previewing a brutal five-month general election campaign to come. “The Democratic National Convention will be a contested convention”. She has also won more than 13.6 million votes, compared with almost 10.6 million for Sanders. Decisive wins in Southern states on Super Tuesday and a sweep of March 15 contests gave her a significant delegate lead, which became insurmountable by the end of April after big victories in NY and in the Northeast. “Before that, he candidly said at a news conference, “I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president”, furthering, “…and the reason is because I have a lot of faith in the American people”.
