Many in the media are claiming that former Secretary Clinton is less than a hundred delegates away from securing the nomination but those projections take into account the hundreds of superdelegates who have said they will support Clinton but are free to change their minds at any time.
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Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, Clinton said she will do “everything I can to reach out, to try to unify the Democratic Party”, and she expects Sanders will do the same.
The victory – to be made official at the nominating convention in July – would make Clinton the first female nominee of a major U.S. political party, and set the stage for an unprecedented matchup with real estate tycoon Trump, a political neophyte who turned American campaigning on its ear during an extraordinary primary season. At some point, the FBI will finish their investigation and decide whether or not to recommend an indictment of Hillary Clinton and turn it over to the Justice Department for prosecution. Bernie Sanders in Tuesday’s unexpectedly close primary.
Mr Sanders and Mrs Clinton spent Sunday campaigning in California – the former secretary of state and her husband visiting black churches, appealing to a demographic that had given her important support in past contests.
But Sanders has been all but camped out in California in the last few weeks, hanging his campaign’s hopes on a strong showing during the state’s June 7 primary.
If she wins it sets the stage for a stronger fight against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
A Sanders victory there could embolden his supporters to urge him to wage a fractious convention fight.
She beat then-Illinois Senator Barack Obama with almost 68 percent of the vote. And Sanders faced new questions about the future of his campaign amid reports that President Barack Obama was readying an endorsement of Clinton.
He’s won 20 states and more than 10 million votes.
Hillary Clinton needs just 24 more delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination, when the total of delegates she’s won in primaries and caucuses are combined with her superdelegate supporters.
Clinton said that in 2008, some supporters urged her to battle Barack Obama to the convention but noted that she made a decision to cede to Obama rather than fight because they shared similar policy goals and values.
Sanders has racked up big primary and caucus victories with his anti-establishment message energizing young voters and those feeling left out of government and left behind in the economic recovery.
The reason NPR includes superdelegates in our count, which comes to us via the AP, either for Clinton or Sanders is because these officials have publicly pledged their support to one or the other candidate. She is also expected to win in Washington, D.C., which holds the final primary of the year on June 14.
According to the latest counts, Clinton has 1,809 pledged delegates to Sanders’ 1,520 delegates.
“She’s practical and has good ideas of how to actually get things done compared to some policies that Sanders has that sometimes don’t economically make sense”, Skidmore said.
Clinton, tantalizingly close to seizing the Democratic Party nomination, cautioned that “it’s not over until it’s over”.
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Yet Clinton showed no signs of limping into the general election as she approached the milestone, leaving Sanders behind and focusing on lacerating Trump. “The only one benefiting from this is Donald Trump”. “If the turnout is very high, I think we will win by a higher number”, Sanders said. He did say that four superdelegates have committed to switch from Hillary Clinton to Sanders and that he is having private conversation with more.
