President Obama could officially endorse Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonSanders camp: Clinton has not secured nomination yet GOP aghast as Trump doubles down State Dept. would need 75 years to compile Clinton emails MORE as early as this week after she secures enough delegates to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination.
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Even as Sen. Bernie Sanders pledges to keep fighting until the Democratic convention, Clinton and her allies are planning a major push to unify the party behind her candidacy, including a high-profile endorsement Obama is poised to deliver as soon as this week, two Democrats familiar with the effort tell CNN. The result puts her within 30 delegates of the 2,383 needed to claim the nomination, according to an Associated Press tally. “They are committed. They have voted for me in great numbers across our country for many reasons, but among those reasons is their belief that having a woman president will make a great statement, a historic statement, about what kind of country we are, what we stand for”, Clinton said.
Superdelegates, the Democratic party leaders who are allowed to place their vote for either candidate, has overwhelmingly swung Clinton’s way.
The two confronted in the Democratic race for the president back in 2008, which led to Obama’s victory and Clinton’s appointment as the secretary of state. Rather, the official said, Obama is hoping to bring the party together ahead of what will likely be a bruising general election fight between Clinton and Trump in the fall. Clinton may lock the nomination on Tuesday but winning over the millions of passionate Bernie Sanders supporters is her summer job. Plus, while I’m a Clinton supporter, I’m concerned about party unity, and I think her campaign should take every opportunity to reach out to Sanders voters. No matter the outcome, one thing that is for sure is that Sanders supporters are not warming to the idea of Clinton.
Clinton insisted, however, that her “singular focus” was on getting voters in California, New Jersey and other states to cast their votes in their primary elections on Tuesday.
Sanders strung together a populist message that resonated with the American people to the point of frustration for many establishment figures in the Democratic party. On the Republican side, there is a list of candidates but Donald Trump is already considered the presumptive nominee.
California is the biggest prize on Tuesday – the last and largest state to vote in what became a surprisingly protracted and bitter Democratic primary race to pick a nominee for the November 8 presidential election. She told a cheering crowd she was on the brink of a “historic, unprecedented moment”, but said there was still work to be done in the six states to vote Tuesday. Pledged delegates are real.
She now moves on to face Trump, whose ascent to the top of the Republican Party few expected.
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“We’re judged by our words and our deeds, not our race, not our ethnicity, not our religion”, she said Saturday in Oxnard, California. Older men and older women both choose Clinton, although men support her by 23 points, and women by 38 points. Clinton, in an MSNBC interview on Monday, said Trump’s comments about the judge were racist and bigoted. “I look forward to campaigning with the president and everybody else”.
