Hillary Clinton looks set to take on Donald Trump for the White House after securing the 2383 delegates needed to become the Democratic nominee. Tuesday marks eight years to the day Clinton conceded to Obama in an emotional speech where she noted she was unable to “shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling”.
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Now the presumptive nominee, she will formally accept her party’s nomination in July at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
And with Clinton poised to pass the necessary delegate threshold tomorrow, Sanders has a new goal: persuading news organizations and the public to believe that the primary race isn’t over, even when it appears to be over. She also has the support of 571 superdelegates, according to an AP count. It also includes the preferences of 714 superdelegates. The further to the left Sanders pushes her, the more she is likely to upset blue collar Democrats already attracted by Trump’s message of economic nationalism.
“We just won Puerto Rico! iGracias a la Isla del Encanto por esta victoria!” tweeted Clinton, thanking the Island of Enchantment, as Puerto Rico is known, for her victory.
But those surveyed by AP are adamant they will support Mrs Clinton.
“This is an important milestone, but there are six states that are voting Tuesday, with millions of people headed to the polls, and Hillary Clinton is working to earn every vote”, Mook said.
“There are more of us than there are of you, but there’s no point in having a shouting match”, Clinton told the Sanders supporters. To officially win the nomination, a Democratic candidate actually has to win 2,383 delegates – a majority of the 4,765 total.
Sacramento for Bernie Sanders co-founder Eric Sunderland said he had not seen the news because he was “too busy winning for Bernie”.
In the Midwestern state, the first step in the long nominations process, Clinton narrowly edged out Sanders, but about 80 percent of voters under the age of 25 chose him – a strong showing he would repeat across the nation. “Secretary Clinton does not have and will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to secure the nomination”. Sanders has 1,520 pledged delegates, putting him 300 behind Clinton. She won 29 caucuses and primaries to his 21 victories.
After a challenging primary against Vermont Sen.
In the Burlington and Ocean County-based 3rd District, two Democrats are vying to replace Republican incumbent Rep. Tom MacArthur, who contributed $5 million to his campaign in 2014.
What’s more, Sanders hopes to notch a victory in Tuesday’s California primary, in which polls have shown the candidates in a dead heat.
Clinton’s campaign is billing tonight’s speech as a major event, even organizing “watch parties” across New Hampshire and elsewhere.
The former secretary of state, who is expected to be declared the first female presidential nominee, and the defiant Vermont senator, are holding last rallies ahead of the final Super Tuesday of a campaign that was more contentious and competitive than anyone expected.
Obama remains popular with many voters.
The question is not so much who wins but what next, but can Democrats unite to fight Donald Trump?
Clinton has been eager to move past the protracted primary and fully turn her attention to her general election battle with Trump.
“He is not just unprepared”.
White House and Clinton campaign aides have been discussing the sequencing of the long-expected announcement, and Obama’s schedule has several possible opportunities for maximizing the impact. Clinton backed the bill a couple of weeks ago. Nine incumbent Democrats – five in the House and four in the Senate – are facing primary challenges. There are no Senate contests in the state this year.
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Clinton if she can emerge from her convention with a unified party is sure to make a dent in the number of voters who say they are looking for some other candidate.
