Sanders’ campaign appeared to burn through cash to get to the final nominating contests, ending April with just US$5.8 million on hand, compared with Clinton’s US$30 million.
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CNN on Monday declared Hillary Clinton the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee based on its count of delegates and superdelegates.
Beyond winning over millions of Sanders supporters who vow to remain loyal to the self-described democratic socialist, Clinton faces challenges as she turns toward November, including criticism of her decision to use a private email server run from her NY home while serving as secretary of state.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gestures as she campaigns at East Los Angeles College in Los Angeles, the United States, May 5, 2016.
According to a statement from Clinton’s campaign manager, they expect to win both the majority of pledged delegates as well as the popular vote in the upcoming primaries.
Mrs Clinton, a former secretary of state, NY senator and first lady, leads Mr Sanders by three million votes, 291 pledged delegates and 523 superdelegates, according to AP’s count. Some are superdelegates, who have unequivocally told AP they will vote for her next month at the party’s convention.
Her rival, Bernie Sanders, and his top surrogates and supporters have attacked the nominating rules and the way news organizations are counting superdelegates in tallying the 2,383 delegates needed to secure the Democratic presidential nomination.
“Our job from now until the convention is to convince those superdelegates that Bernie is by far the strongest candidate against Donald Trump”, he said. Sanders has argued that Clinton won’t have a lock because superdelegates don’t actually vote until the convention and could change their minds.
Nevertheless, Clinton, who is certain to add hundreds more delegates to her total in Tuesday’s primaries, can savor her political comeback, after losing the 2008 Democratic primary to Obama.
On Monday night, Hillary Clinton became the first woman in US history to secure enough delegates to win a major political party’s presidential nomination, according to a report from the Associated Press. Even if the AP hadn’t made its call, and even if Clinton lost both primaries, she’d nearly certainly win enough delegates to put her over the top.
Mr Sanders’ campaign team said the Vermont senator would attempt to win back superdelegates who have pledged their support to Mrs Clinton. Sanders supporters argue it is “misleading”, “unfair”, and even a “lie” that news networks would declare Clinton the victor because “superdelegates” don’t officially vote until the convention. She was a insane person, but Clinton has indeed now brought one revolutionary change.
Clinton has been buoyed, however, by a speech last week in San Diego in which she slammed presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump like never before, calling him temperamentally unfit and ill prepared to assume the presidency.
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She was able to clinch the nomination, however, on her strong performance in the Deep South and strength in big states like NY and Pennsylvania along with her advantage among superdelegates.
Clinton, a past US senator and secretary of state, won South Dakota’s primary in 2008 over Barack Obama.
Most caveats are no longer necessary – with one hitch: Clinton is not officially the nominee. They are anxious that the news could depress turnout among Clinton voters who see voting in California and other states as less important. Her less lofty promises focus on improving the policies of her fellow Democrat and former boss, President Barack Obama.
For that reason, the Democratic National Committee has echoed the Sanders campaign, saying the superdelegates should not be counted until they vote at the convention in Philadelphia. Her deep unpopularity among Republicans has pushed many leery of Trump to nevertheless embrace his campaign. After serving as his first term secretary of state, she embarked yet again on the grueling presidential trail in January 2015 – following two years on the lucrative celebrity speakers circuit, piling up personal wealth that has emerged as a liability in a presidential campaign dominated by voter fury at political and financial elites.
“I think the whole argument about the math is irrelevant”, Selverston said.
But Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont who calls himself a democratic socialist, kept drawing big crowds – and started rising in the polls.
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Sanders, meanwhile, would need to win 814 delegates to reach 2,383.
