According to the latest count by the Associated Press, Hillary Clinton only needs 23 delegates (including superdelegates) to make it to 2,382 delegates. She easily defeated opponent Bernie Sanders in the Virgin Island primary Saturday and Puerto Rico’s primary on Sunday.
Advertisement
Clinton now has 1,812 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses; Sanders has 1,521.
“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”, said Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs. It should: Whether one approves of that system or not, they are real, and they overwhelmingly support Clinton.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton noted in an NPR interview that tomorrow will make eight years to the day that she conceded to then-Senator Barack Obama.
His victory is predicated on two trends in the primaries: that Sanders has outperformed his polling numbers in states that he has spent time campaigning in, that semi-open primaries favor Sanders, and that there’s been a surge of voter registration in the state, with 650,000 voters registering in the last 45 days.
Although Trump has also thrown his shots at “Crooked Hillary”, he has yet to show all his cards, and will prove to be Clinton’s most unpredictable adversary. But she said there was still work to be done in the six states voting on Tuesday and made little mention of her claim on the nomination. White House aides have hinted that she will soon get the endorsement and active support of Obama, who remains beloved among Democrats.
The wire service says Clinton has 1,812 pledged delegates.
“Our job from now until the convention is to convince those superdelegates that Bernie is by far the strongest candidate against Donald Trump”. I have a huge number of supporters and organizers that are working as we speak to get out the vote, to get people to mail in their ballots who haven’t yet.
The state this year has seen a surge in voter registration among younger people and Hispanics, most of whom registered as permanent vote-by-mail voters.
Speaking in California on Monday night, Clinton said she was on the brink of a “historic, unprecedented moment”. During the Democratic primaries on Tuesday (when party voters head to the polls in California, New Jersey, the Dakotas, Montana, and New Mexico) 694 delegates, including 475 delegates in California, will be at stake.
Asked by reporters in San Francisco if he had talked to Obama, Sanders demurred. Trump secured the delegates he needed to clinch the Republican nomination last month, leaving him free to focus on battering Clinton.
California holds its primary tomorrow, June 7th, and polls have shown the race tightening between Sanders and Clinton in recent weeks.
Trump, a real estate developer, has regularly stirred up controversy on the campaign trail and has frequently dismayed Republican establishment leaders. “He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and vast responsibility”, Clinton said last week in a speech that was striking in its forcefulness, previewing a brutal five-month general election campaign to come.
When it comes to winning the nomination, only delegates matter.
Sanders laughed and asked if it was a serious question, and Alcindor replied that it was.
Another measuring stick: most Republican delegates are awarded by the outcome in each of the state’s 53 congressional districts.
Advertisement
Clinton’s victory comes 96 years after USA women were granted the right to vote, 100 years after the first woman was elected to Congress, 240 years after the country was founded.
