Democrats will decide between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton as their presidential candidate.
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In the meantime, the AP tally puts her at 1,812 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses, plus 571 superdelegates.
The former secretary of state, NY senator and first lady, has reached the 2,383 delegates needed to become the presumptive Democratic nominee. But as Bernie made clear over the weekend, no, he is not going, pushing instead for probably the wildest Democratic convention any of us are likely to ever see.
“Eager to exploit his recent spike in popularity, Obama is looking to become the most active lame duck campaigner in recent presidential history”, the CNN report said.
Hillary Clinton has commitments from the number of delegates needed to become the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president, and will be first woman to top the ticket of a major U.S. political party.
In a statement, the Sanders campaign noted that the superdelegates don’t vote until July 25 and can change their minds between now and the convention.
AP surveys the superdelegates throughout the primary season to track whom they planned to support at the July convention.
But that has not deterred the news media. Sanders says he won’t concede to rival Hillary Clinton even if she takes California on Tuesday. “But we still have work to do, don’t we”. “We’re going to fight hard for every single vote”, Clinton told a cheering crowd during a campaign stop in California.
Obama and Clinton battled ferociously for the Democratic nomination in 2008.
Clinton is expected to easily hit that number on Tuesday evening, when six more states hold Democratic contests: California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota.
“I want everyone in the states that vote tomorrow to come out and vote and bring their families and their friends and everybody else”, she said. They are all party officials, governors and members of Congress who may vote for the candidate of their choice, regardless of the outcome in their state’s primary or caucus.
But when asked directly about women who cry at her events when they realize she could become the first female president, Clinton grew more emotional.
“What we’re saying is that she will have the delegates to be the nominee”.
Sanders, meanwhile, campaigned in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In addition, mainstream senators such as former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle and Harry Reid have also highlighted the importance of party unity for doing well in the congressional races, arguing that a Senate with a stronger Democratic presence would greatly benefit the agenda of the Sanders camp.
Clinton’s campaign tried to downplay the “presumptive nominee” label Monday night, noting that voters in six states head to the polls on Tuesday. That was down from 50 percent in April, and 52 percent in March.
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There are four delegates remaining in Puerto Rico, but they can not be allocated until the vote count there is finished. Sanders claimed last week that one of his picks, RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, was rejected because she was a representative of a labor union.
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“It presents some operational challenges like long lines like we had yesterday”, he said.
