It undertook a count of the superdelegates – all 714 of them – and found that she had enough of their support to add to the pledged delegates (from states who’ve already held their primary elections) to reach the 2,383 simple majority of delegates she needs to secure the nomination. On Monday, she pointed to her 2008 decision to unite the party and said Democrats needed to do the same to take on Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee.
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Even as Sen. Bernie Sanders pledges to keep fighting until the Democratic convention, Clinton and her allies are planning a major push to unify the party behind her candidacy, including a high-profile endorsement Obama is poised to deliver as soon as this week, two Democrats familiar with the effort tell CNN.
But in reality, the vast majority of these have publicly pledged their support for Hillary Clinton, and are unlikely to change their mind, as they are party stalwarts, who do not perhaps wish to vote for someone who just joined the party officially a year ago. Since the start of the AP’s survey in late 2015, no superdelegates have switched from supporting Clinton to backing Sanders.
She would be the first woman nominated for president by a major USA political party. She told a cheering crowd she was on the brink of a “historic, unprecedented moment”, but said there was still work to be done in the six states to vote Tuesday. “And I think that is something that a lot of little girls across the country are going to look at and say, ‘That’s something we can do, too”.
The former Democratic senator from NY and first lady for much of the 1990s, Clinton was the uber-favorite out of the gate-she was the first in the race, but her campaign oozed humility. Campaigning on Sunday, Sanders again raised the possibility of a contested convention and said he’s still trying to sway superdelegates.
Sanders, meanwhile, capped his long-running California swing with stops Monday in liberal bastions around San Francisco, including a scheduled get-out-the-vote rally with rocker Dave Matthews.
“It is unfortunate that the media, in a rush to judgment, are ignoring the Democratic National Committee’s clear statement that it is wrong to count the votes of superdelegates before they actually vote at the convention this summer”, Sanders campaign manager Michael Briggs said in a statement Monday. MSNBC and NBC News also reported that Clinton has the required number of delegates.
Clinton’s victory is broadly decisive. March was a crucial month for the woman seeking to be America’s first female commander-in-chief, as she built what would prove to be an insurmountable delegate lead over Sanders. She won 29 caucuses and primaries to his 21 victories.
Echoing the sentiments of California Gov.
Now the presumptive nominee, Hillary Clinton is offering a big hint for how her dogged rival, Bernie Sanders, might want to grapple with that reality and Tuesday’s six-state round of results.
October 22, 2015: Clinton survives a marathon 11 hours of questioning about the 2012 militant attack on the USA mission in the Libyan city of Benghazi that left the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans dead.
It’s finally here: the last big primary night of the 2016 presidential race.
While he has formally remained neutral in the race between Clinton and the Vermont independent senator, Obama has inched closer and closer to Clinton’s side in recent weeks and will take the final step after the last round of states vote on Tuesday.
Obama called Sanders on Sunday as he campaigned in California, a Democrat familiar with the call told The Associated Press.
And how much does she look past her long-sought achievement to get busy taking the fight to Donald Trump? The Clinton campaign in Brooklyn is working with the White House to coordinate the effort.
Yet Clinton showed no signs of limping into the general election as she approached the milestone, leaving Sanders behind and focusing on lacerating Trump. She said electing the billionaire businessman, who has spent months hitting her and her husband with bitingly personal attacks, would be a “historic mistake”.
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“The president intends certainly through the fall, if not earlier, to engage in this campaign”, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. His liberal positions pushed the issue of income inequality into the spotlight and drove Clinton to the left on issues such as trade, Wall Street and campaign finance reform.
