“I stand firmly with Muslim American communities in rejection of the voices that seek to divide us or limit our religious freedoms or civil rights”, Obama wrote, adding later: “We will continue to welcome immigrants and refugees into our nation, including those who are Muslim”. “In 2008, some superdelegates flipped from Clinton to Obama after he overcame her early lead in pledged delegates”.
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Polls in California closed at 11 pmEDT, but news networks said the race was too close to call.
“This page has endorsed Clinton not because she is more likely to win the nomination but because she is vastly better prepared than Sanders for the presidency”, the editorial board said.
The immediate stakes of the election are in little doubt.
“And the second point I’ve made is that it is absolutely imperative that we defeat Donald Trump as a candidate for president of the United States. I believe that I am the stronger candidate”. Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, also was visiting the state. There were no immediate projections in Montana or South Dakota in the final series of big presidential nominating battles that began on February 1 in Iowa.
A Puerto Rico resident votes during the USA territory’s Democratic primary election at the Luis Llorens Torres Elementary School in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sunday June 5, 2016.
“Yes, it is a serious question”, the reporter shot back.
“I think the Sanders campaign would agree that the president has worked hard and gone to great lengths to be fair”, said Earnest. The outcome of the Tuesday primary election in California could determine the rest of the Democrat race for president. Opinion polls show the controversy has hurt Clinton’s ratings on honesty and trustworthiness. “My job in the next 24 hours is to win California”.
Obama is expected to travel to NY on Wednesday to speak at two Democratic fundraisers, which will take place after California and five other states hold primaries on Tuesday.
The victory arrived eight years after she conceded her first White House campaign to Barack Obama. On that score, Bernie Sanders is the hands-down victor, racking up more than triple the number of Sunday news show appearances of Hillary Clinton, and even eclipsing the total of media puppeteer Donald Trump. Yes, do I have a problem with that?
With “a burst of last-minute support from superdelegates”, Hillary Clinton has crossed the threshold of 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, the Associated Press reported late Monday.
There are four delegates remaining in Puerto Rico, but they can not be allocated until the vote count there is finished.
The supredelegates counted in Clinton’s tally have unequivocally told the AP they will do so.
His spokesman Michael Briggs said Mrs Clinton’s support was dependent upon superdelegates who could still change their minds between now and the July convention. CA, MT, NM, ND, NJ, SD, vote tomorrow! So far, his campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, acknowledged they had yet to convert a single delegate.
The president has also not minced words about the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, thrashing the real estate businessman during his White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech in April and referencing Trump’s divisive rhetoric and policies for several months.
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On Tuesday night he addressed a crowd of supporters in NY, welcoming Sanders supporters “with open arms” should they decide to support him and declaring a new phase of the campaign had begun. “And then we take our fight for social, economic, racial and environmental justice to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania”. I have reports that the media, after the New Jersey results come in, are going to declare that it is all over.
