Clinton would be the country’s first female president if she defeats Donald Trump in November.
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The Vermont senator echoed that deflection when asked about the call by reporters later on Monday: “I have spoken to President Obama many many times about many issues”.
The president’s public approval ratings, upside-down for most of his second term, have been steadily rising this spring; in March, they reached 51 percent approval, crossing firmly into positive territory for the first time since May 2013.
Two other Democratic sources, meanwhile, said the president is poised to deliver his endorsement of Clinton as early as this week. He said during an evening rally in San Diego that Democratic leaders should take notice that the “energy and grassroots activism” that will be crucial to the party in the fall “is with us, not Hillary Clinton”.
President Barack Obama edged closer to a formal endorsement of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee Monday, suggesting the next 48 hours would be pivotal.
“I am pretty good at arithmetic and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight”, he said.
“I’m waiting for him to say because of all the bigoted things he has said about women that a woman judge couldn’t preside”, Clinton told a lunchtime crowd near Los Angeles.
In the long race for the Democratic presidential nomination, six states vote on Tuesday. Bernie Sanders. He mobilized millions with a fervently liberal message and his insurgent candidacy revealed a deep level of national frustration with politics as usual, even among Democrats who have controlled the White House since 2009. With 1,812 pledged delegates now in her corner, she is just 214 short of the mark, with about 700 delegates to be awarded Tuesday.
Obama’s aides said he is “particularly enthusiastic” about taking on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, according to the newspaper.
The outcome in California, the last and largest state to vote, could affect Clinton’s efforts to unify the party behind her.
“In this campaign, we have seen her vision, her knowledge, her ability, indeed her stamina, to get the job done for the American people”, Pelosi said in a statement. However, that registration spike is not showing up in vote-by-mail returns received so far, said Paul Mitchell of research firm Political Data Inc. Her supporters have said Sanders should look at that as a road map for his own exit from this year’s race.
Bernie Sanders isn’t quite ready to go there, still hoping for a late, improbable course correction in the political passageways of 2016.
Sanders said that after he got food in his belly, which he did during a brief stop at Aunt Mary’s in Oakland, California, he planned to meet voters for the rest of the day, with his final rally in California along the water in San Francisco tonight, with the Golden Gate Bridge as his backdrop.
Superdelegates are not formally casting their votes until the Democratic’s July convention in Philadelphia, but all those counted in Clinton’s tally have confirmed with the AP that they will back her.
Trump had briefly tied Clinton in support among likely USA voters in mid-May, raising expectations for a tight race between the two likely contenders in November’s presidential election.
While Sanders is correct that superdelegates can switch their votes, there is no precedent for a huge number of superdelegates’ switching sides.
The victory for Mrs. Clinton follows her husband’s visit to the territory last month, where he promised that a Clinton administration would be an advocate for Virgin Islanders in the areas of healthcare and, critically, the right to vote for president of the United States, which Virgin Islanders and other USA territories – including Puerto Rico – now can not do.
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Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, who has won 20 states and pushed the heavily favored Clinton for the nomination, has outlined plans to influence the party platform and try to persuade superdelegates that he would fare better than Clinton against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
