Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont) and securing her grip on the party’s nomination.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaking to supporters at a primary night rally in Santa Monica, Calif., June 7, 2016. Obama is expected to endorse Clinton as early as this week. As she took the stage to raucous cheers, she paused to relish the moment, flinging her arms wide and beaming broadly. “This is the first time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party nominee for president!” AP says Clinton has enough delegates to win democratic nomination ABC11 spoke with local Sanders supporters to find out what they think about his camping ahead of California’s election results. Furthermore, the Real Clear Politics poll average shows she only has a two-point lead against Donald Trump – essentially neck-in-neck.
“Once a candidate has won a majority of the pledged delegates and a majority of the popular vote, which Secretary Clinton has now done, we have our nominee”, Merkley, who is Sanders’ sole supporter in the Senate, told me. “Despite some speculation that he’d drop out of the race Tuesday night, Sanders said at a speech in California that he’d “continue the fight in the last primary in Washington, DC” next week”.
The Democratic convention will be held the last week of July in Philadelphia.
Democrats have urged Mr Sanders to join Mrs Clinton as she tries to defeat Donald Trump.
Going forward, the Clinton campaign focused on the plight of those in society who have been held down by prejudice and discrimination: “It may be hard to see tonight, but we are all standing under a glass ceiling right now”. He notably stripped his speech of all criticism of her, but still pledged to compete in next week’s final primary in the District of Columbia and take his fight for “social, economic, racial and environmental justice” to the Democratic convention.
“She was very supportive of me, but I’m not sure she would have predicted that, number one I would do it again”, Clinton said. “I will make you proud of your party – and our movement”, he said. “Her historic campaign inspired millions and is an extension of her lifelong fight for middle-class families and children”, the statement from press pecretary Josh Earnest said.
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For the Washington Post, Molly Roberts says responses to Ms. Clinton’s victory have revealed a significant generation gap amongst democrats. But he also admitted, “I am pretty good in arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight”. Speculation was rife that Obama had told Sanders of the damage to their party from a protracted primary fight even after Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee crossing the majority delegate count.
