The California primary results further consolidated Clinton’s chance to be the presidential nominee.
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“The struggle continues”, the senator told a California crowd.
Even if Sanders wins all seven remaining primaries, proportional delegate allocation rules give him no realistic change of catching Clinton in pledged delegates, forcing him to resort to asking superdelegates to contradict the will of the voters. But Clinton will spend Tuesday night embracing the historic nature of her expected nomination as the first woman to ever head a major-party ticket in this country.
“The forward march of American history has often been registered through presidential elections – Kennedy as the first Catholic, Obama as the first African-American and then Hillary as the first female nominee”, said Democratic strategist Bob Shrum, calling Clinton’s achievement “a really big landmark moment in terms of women having their full and rightful place in society”.
Sanders is said to be feeling combative, is bitter about how he’s been treated by the Democratic party and is brushing aside staffers who are insisting on the need for party unity, according to a story published by the web outlet Politico.
Standing athwart her path to history is Donald Trump.
“Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president and commander in chief”. She won support, especially among older voters, with a more pragmatic campaign focused on building on the policies of her fellow Democrat, President Barack Obama.
Sanders has hoped that superdelegates – party leaders who can back any candidate – would support him as the stronger general election candidate. With the California polls narrowing in recent weeks, Mr. Sanders’ argument that he had the momentum in the contest had threatened to upset Ms. Clinton’s campaign. She even won South Dakota a state that was not even on her radar, and she did very very well in California which was the biggest prize on this last super Tuesday of the season.
“I wonder now in this day and age whether it’s possible for any candidate, who is not a billionaire or who is not beholden to the billionaire class, to be able to run successful campaigns”, he said.
“We will not allow right-wing Republicans to control our government”, Sanders said.
“A lot of people he has energized and they are rabidly involved in the system now”, Reid said of Sanders in an interview with The Washington Post. He plans to return to his home in Burlington, Vt., after tonight.
“I am pretty good in arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight”, he said in California. The White House announced that Obama telephoned both candidates to congratulate them on their hard-fought primary race, and said the president would meet with Sanders on Thursday, “at Sanders’ request”, at the White House.
The controversy over his real-estate school was compounded by a racially tinged insinuation from Trump that the judge overseeing the case is unqualified to oversee it fairly because his parents were Mexican.
The superdelegates who were counted in Clinton’s total told the AP they were unequivocally supporting her. After her last defeat in 2008, it took her a few days to withdraw and support Obama: “I know it never feels good to put your heart into a cause or a candidate you believe in, and to come up short”. “Some people say I am too much of a fighter, but my preference is always peace”.
“Bernie Sanders understands, probably better than anyone else right now, just what a threat a Trump presidency would be, the fraud of Trump – Conman Don – becoming president of the United States and what that would mean, not only to the United States, but to the world”, Rep. Joe Crowley, vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus said. “My job in the next 24 hours is to do everything that I can to win those delegates”, Sanders said. She also led him in pledged delegates and unbound superdelegates.
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But with Clinton’s speech and in a video unveiled earlier Tuesday, she was already looking ahead to November and reminding voters that she has broken one of the thickest glass ceilings in political history.
