In suspending her campaign then, Clinton made an emotional appeal to her supporters, particularly women, to take the loss in stride and rally enthusiastically behind Obama.
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“At this point, there is at least one superdelegate, the one who works in the Oval Office, who is not prepared to make a public declaration about his endorsement at this point, but stay tuned and we’ll keep you updated”, Earnest told reporters. “Hillary said at the beginning of this campaign, she was going to fight for every single vote”.
Clinton has 1,812 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses.
But the Associated Press surveyed super-delegates on Monday night, and their reporting showed that Mrs Clinton had secured the overall support of the required 2383 delegates, according to a news release.
Clinton leaves Sanders trailing by more than 3 million cast votes; 291 pledged delegates and 523 superdelegates – a wider margin of victory than President Barack Obama had when he clinched the nomination in 2008. Sanders said he would return home to Vermont on Wednesday. She’s locked up the Democratic nomination for president already, the Associated Press reported Monday night in a surprise announcement on the eve of the primaries.
Former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton has obtained the necessary delegates to become the Democratic party leading nominee. He intends to win over those who back Clinton by making the case before the party meets in Philadelphia that he would be a stronger general election candidate against presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
“I believed it was the right thing to do”.
“We’re judged by our words and our deeds, not our race, not our ethnicity, not our religion”, she said Saturday in Oxnard, California.
Bernie Sanders is still running for president, and several states have yet to vote.
But Mrs Clinton has continued to edge him out, particularly among older voters with longer ties to the Democratic Party. His job approval was over 50 per cent in a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll and has been on the rise in 2016. We need California. We need New Jersey, we need North Dakota. Clinton once held a sizable lead there over Sanders, but opinion polls in recent days showed them in a dead heat.
She now moves on to face Trump, whose ascent to the top of the Republican Party few expected. “If Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she would get 5 percent of the vote”, he said in April.
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While Clinton has been in the driver’s seat for the nomination for weeks, a victory by the front-runner in California would give Sanders much less leverage as he seeks to sway superdelegates.
