According to CNN, the White House is preparing a plan to roll out endorsements for Clinton from Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. “She will break that glass ceiling once and for all”, senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, the longest-serving woman in US Congress history, told the Guardian in a statement.
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The New York Times reported Monday that President Obama may endorse Clinton as early as this week. They’re pols themselves, or deeply involved in politics.
Clinton appeared to have collected at least two dozen superdelegate commitments late in the day, after climbing to 2,360 delegates in contests over the weekend in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Sanders has 1,520 pledged delegates, putting him 300 behind Clinton. Clinton is 23 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to win the nomination, according to an Associated Press count.
The AP surveyed all 714 superdelegates repeatedly in the past seven months, and only 95 remain publicly uncommitted.
“It’s driving him crazy” remaining on the sidelines, the source said. Speaking to reporters at a community center in Compton, Clinton said she was on her way to having a clear lead in the popular vote and pledged delegates.
“I want everyone in the states that vote tomorrow to come out and vote and bring their families and their friends and everybody else”, she said. I don’t think it is sexist.
Like Clinton, Sanders made little mention of the outcome in Puerto Rico’s primary.
Instead, what is all but certain to play out after Tuesday is Clinton will have defeated Sanders soundly with primary voters over the course of this campaign, by far more delegates than Obama did in 2008.
“I’m gonna do everything I can to unify the Democratic party, and I certainly am going to be reaching out to Senator Sanders and hope he will join me in that”, she said.
Clinton’s victory is broadly decisive.
Sanders, who is relying on a win to California to give his campaign a new burst of momentum, has maintained that the Democratic convention will be contested and that, with the support of superdelegates, he has a chance to win the nomination. She’s calling for unity after the primary to beat the presumptive GOP nominee. “Hillary Clinton will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to win the Democratic nomination at the end of the nominating process on June 14”. “We shouldn’t be acting like we are undecided when the people of America have spoken”.
“Anyone who has supported me or sen sanders has a big steak in keeping Trump from president which I can barely say”, said Hilary Clinton.
The former secretary of state has always been conscious of the historic nature of her candidacy and famously talked about it in her 2008 concession speech when she lost the Democratic primary to another historic candidate, Barack Obama.
Top Republicans still back Trump but say they’re outraged. “I look forward to campaigning with the president and everybody else”.
Yet Clinton showed no signs of limping into the general election as she approached the milestone, leaving Sanders behind and focusing on lacerating Trump.
“He is not just unprepared”.
“Trying to thwart Hillary Clinton from becoming president?”
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But she prevailed, in part, by claiming much of the coalition that boosted Obama.
