The Clinton camp is not shy about pointing out that Tuesday will be eight years to the day since she dropped out of the race to allow Barack Obama to continue unimpeded to the Democratic nomination.
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But Clinton is looking to finish strong as well, pushing her campaign hard.
On Monday, she pointed to her 2008 decision to unite the party and said Democrats needed to do the same to take on Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.
Hoping she can woo Sanders supporters, but also beat him on Tuesday.
The AP surveyed all 714 superdelegates repeatedly in the past seven months, and only 95 remain publicly uncommitted.
While they can change their minds, those counted in Clinton’s tally have unequivocally told the AP they will support her at the party’s summer convention. It wasn’t until recently, however, that Clinton began addressing her status as the potential first woman nominee for a major political party.
Speaking in California on Monday night, Clinton said she was on the brink of a “historic, unprecedented moment”. Women Sanders supporters are more willing to join with Clinton: more than two-thirds of them would vote for Clinton over Trump.
Clinton, anxious that calling the race on Monday would make her supporters less likely to vote in the California and New Jersey primaries Tuesday, walked a fine line at her rally there.
If Sanders wins the primary in California, America’s most populous state, it would not be enough for him to catch Clinton in the overall delegate count but could fuel his continued presence in the race. When superdelegates are counted, Clinton is within a hair of victory.
Hillary Clinton won today’s Democratic primary in Puerto Rico, according to the Associated Press.
Echoing the sentiments of California Gov.
“It’s going to make her ability to seal the deal with disaffected Democrats all that much harder”, said Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist who supports Clinton.
If Sanders, who was trailing in polls in California until recently, roars back to take the state, he may have little incentive to exit the race despite increasing pressure from party luminaries to stand down.
“Tonight, we can say with pride that, in America, there is no barrier too great and no ceiling too high to break”, Ms Clinton wrote on Twitter.
Though she marched into her second presidential primary campaign as an overwhelming favorite, Clinton could not shake Sanders until its final days.
He’s planning an election night party in Santa Monica, while Clinton is holding her Super Tuesday rally in Brooklyn at the site where she last debated Sanders.
They are able to choose who to support, unlike pledged delegates who are obligated to support a particular candidate based on the voting percentages in state primary contests. Unlike recent sitting presidents, Obama remains popular enough to be welcome in swing states and Democratic strongholds. “I have spoken to President Obama many, many times about many issues, and I really think it’s not appropriate to talk about my discussions with the president”.
She wants to move beyond the primary battle and turn her attention to Mr Trump.
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“He is not just unprepared”.
