New Jersey, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota will also hold nominating contests Tuesday, putting a total of 806 delegates up for grabs.
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“According to the news, we are on the brink of a historic and unprecedented moment”, Clinton told her supporters.
She would be the first woman nominated for president by a major US political party.
As of Monday night, the Associated Press counted for Clinton 2,383 delegates, the magic number needed to claim the nomination, compared to the 1,569 obtained by Sanders. No one thinks Clinton represents the long-term future of the Democratic Party – whether she secures the nomination or not – so only a debate with Sanders offers the optics of a genuine philosophical battle over what American politics will look like over the next half-century.
So what is Sanders to do for the rest of June and July before the national convention?
Clinton outpaced Sanders in winning new superdelegate endorsements even after his string of primary and caucus wins in May.
Clinton is likely to clinch the nomination before the polls close in enormous California, but she has been campaigning furiously there in recent days, in part to deny Sanders a victory on a night when she and her campaign want no doubt to remain about her nomination.
Warren is scheduled to appear together with Biden on Thursday at a law policy event in Washington, providing another opportunity for Democrats to voice support for their party’s newly anointed presumptive nominee.
California is a diverse state with a large population of black and Hispanic voters that have been steadfastly in the Clinton camp. In Kentucky last month, the Sanders campaign demanded a recount because of the state’s close results. She also has the support of 571 superdelegates, according to an AP count. “My job in the next 24 hours is to win California”.
On Monday, Clinton noted the timing of the expected endorsement has symbolic weight: Tuesday marks eight years since her concession speech and endorsement of Obama after their 2008 primary showdown.
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This is not the case with Sanders, who is clearly seeking to be a transformational president and is not offering false promises so much as saying the United States needs a new FDR or Ronald Reagan-both of whom sought and achieved sweeping transformational legislation at the top of their first administrations and who dramatically changed the relationship between government and business (albeit in opposing directions). He notched up more wins, even taking MI despite poll data favoring Clinton. And given that the results of the FBI investigation into Clinton’s email server wouldn’t have dropped by June 11th, what better stage on which to join Sanders’ effort to flip superdelegates away from the former Secretary of State? Decisive wins in Southern states on Super Tuesday and a sweep of March 15 contests gave her a significant delegate lead, which became insurmountable by the end of April after big victories in NY and in the Northeast.
