But she has won more votes, more pledged delegates, and more superdelegates.
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“Next Tuesday we continue the fight in the last primary in Washington D.C.”, the Vermont senator said, despite erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proclaiming her victory Tuesday.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives on stage for a rally at Long Beach City College on the final day of California campaigning, June 6, 2016 in Long Beach, California.
He said declaring Clinton the victor before the superdelegates – who conceivably could change their minds – cast their votes at next month’s convention was a “rush to judgment”. The victory in New Jersey – along with a victory in New Mexico called about 15 minutes after she finished her speech – will widen Clinton’s 291-delegate lead over Sanders.
The AP surveyed the superdelegates repeatedly in the past seven months.
Sanders and his supporters are still ready to fight for him, all the way to a contested convention.
But Sanders has so far been unable to sway the superdelegates, and there were signs Monday that he was taking stock of his standing in the race.
“Senator Sanders has said it himself”.
Clinton had already secured the delegates needed for the nomination, according to an Associated Press tally.
In addition, at Senator Sanders’ request, the President and Senator Sanders will meet at the White House on Thursday to continue their conversation about the significant issues at stake in this election that matter most to America’s working families. “That’s an opportunity the president relishes”.
However, Obama did not formally endorse Clinton – his former Secretary of State.
“I understand the responsibility of carrying the mantle”, Trump said on a night he was expected to win California and four other GOP primaries.
Sanders has gone from a candidate once considered an outsider by sections of the USA media to one who has gone toe-to-toe with Clinton. And I really wish my mother could be here tonight.
Glenda McCarthy, a 64-year-old from San Pedro, California, is among the loyal Clinton supporters who have longed for this milestone moment. “Not just a woman, but a woman who is so strong”.
Still, Clinton’s victory has been broadly decisive. “It should be the ones that we come up with not the superdelegates”, said Reverend Dr. Edward Moch, a Sanders supporter in Palm Springs. And Tuesday night, she continued the broadsides.
Clinton has been eager to move past the protracted primary and fully turn her attention to her general election battle with Trump.
During her victory remarks Tuesday, Clinton blasted Trump and reached out to Sanders’ supporters, saluting “the extraordinary campaign” he mounted.
“He’s trying to wall off Americans from one another”, she said, mocking his major policy proposal of a U.S. -Mexico border wall.
The latest cause for GOP concern was his insistence that a judge handling a legal case involving the businessman was being unfair in his rulings.
“To those who voted for someone else – in either party – I will work hard to earn your support, and I will work very hard to earn that support”, Trump said.
Clinton spent much of her own victory speech targeting Trump, previewing a tough general election campaign. On Tuesday, he run all five Republican primaries.
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Voters on Tuesday capped a primary season that started with Republican Gov. Chris Christie running for president and ended with wins for presumptive Republican pick Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton.
