Here’s a look at the count and how the AP determined Clinton has enough delegates to become the presumptive nominee, besting her primary rival, Vermont Sen.
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Clinton is campaigning in California, the largest prize up for grabs Tuesday.
Tuesday’s contest in California is pivotal to Sanders’ rationale to keep going. 63% of women Democratic primary voters supporting Sanders call themselves Democrats.
A major milestone Monday night for Hillary Clinton.
While polls show that to be the case right now, superdelegates are sophisticated consumers of political information. Eight years ago, in the heat of the contest between Clinton and President Obama, many Clinton voters claimed they would not vote for Obama in the general election; in the end, many did not follow through on their threats.
Super delegates are Democratic Party bigwigs who are not bound to any candidate or to the results of statewide votes and do not officially cast their vote until the convention.
At a campaign event on Monday, he was asked if would consider endorsing Hillary Clinton before the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this July. “On domestic policy, her positions on issues such as healthcare and financial regulation are less utopian than what Sanders has proposed but also more realistic”.
But that has not deterred the news media.
AP said late Monday that the former secretary of state’s pledged delegates together with “superdelegates” who back her topped the 2,383 needed to secure the nomination on the first round of voting.
Mr Sanders also opened a new line of attack against Mrs Clinton, criticising donations made by foreign governments, while she was secretary of state, to the Clinton Foundation, founded by former president Bill Clinton. “But we still have work to do, don’t we?”
But Michael Briggs, Sanders’ spokesman, dismissed the AP and NBC tallies. Some supporters, such as Grizzly Bear frontman Ed Droste, who headlined a Prospect Park rally for Sanders in April, argued that the timing of the networks’ announcements could suppress voter turnout in today’s primaries in California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota, and the caucus in North Dakota.
She immediately took to Twitter, suggesting the race was not yet over. Clinton, who won NY, is all but guaranteed to win here too. He went on to say, “We can’t let them [Bernie Sanders’ supporters] win CA because of optics”.
She spent the day in Southern California, first in the heavily Latino city of Lynwood, then later in central Los Angeles, speaking before throngs of black supporters.
Sanders, meanwhile, campaigned in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Hillary Clinton was poised to win the Democratic primary in Puerto Rico, according to a CNN projection.
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“Campaign manager Robby Mook says Clinton is still looking ahead to six states voting Tuesday, including New Jersey and California”. And Bernie Sanders is taking the opportunity to remind everyone that he’s not being pushed out of the race without a fight. “I believe I am the strongest candidate”, Sanders said.
