Clinton has delegates to win Democratic nomination

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With Hillary's win in Puerto Rico yesterday and some other Super-delegates she received, she has reached the magical number needed to be Dem Presidential nominee

However, Sanders ain't done yet!!
Unless Obama got to him

Striding into history, Hillary Clinton will become the first woman to top the presidential ticket of a major U.S. political party, capturing commitments Monday from the number of delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination.

Clinton's rise to presumptive nominee arrived nearly eight years to the day after she conceded her first White House campaign to Barack Obama. Back then, she famously noted her inability to "shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling."

Campaigning this time as the loyal successor to the nation's first black president, Clinton held off a surprisingly strong challenge from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. He mobilized millions with a fervently liberal message and his insurgent candidacy revealed a deep level of national frustration with politics-as-usual, even among Democrats who have controlled the White House since 2009.

The former secretary of state, New York senator and first lady reached the 2,383 delegates needed to become the presumptive Democratic nominee on Monday with a decisive weekend victory in Puerto Rico and a burst of last-minute support from superdelegates. Those are party officials and officeholders, many of them eager to wrap up the primary amid preference polls showing her in a tightening race with presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.

Clinton has 1,812 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses. She also has the support of 571 superdelegates, according to an Associated Press count.

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And what about Sanders you ask?


Bernie Sanders Vows Fight to Convention as Hillary Clinton Wins a Primary

Senator Bernie Sanders defiantly vowed again on Sunday to take his campaign to the Democratic National Convention this summer, even as Hillary Clinton edged closer to clinching the party’s presidential nomination and the final primary contests drew near.

Two days before Tuesday’s primaries in California and five other states, Mr. Sanders repeated his pledge not to concede even if Mrs. Clinton acquires enough delegates to reach 2,383, the threshold for securing the nomination.

A win in California is critical to Mr. Sanders’s plan to stay in the race through the convention and would give him a significant lift.

Sander's is not backing down it seems.....

Mr. Sanders, however, insists that the convention will be contested because he is still lobbying superdelegates — party officials and state leaders who cast their final votes at the convention — to withdraw support from Mrs. Clinton and back him instead. He plans to make the case that he is a stronger candidate against Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee. A number of polls, he said, show he can beat Mr. Trump by larger margins than Mrs. Clinton can.

On Sunday, Mr. Sanders opened a new line of attack against Mrs. Clinton, criticizing donations made by foreign governments while she was secretary of state to the Clinton Foundation, the organization founded by former President Bill Clinton.

Meanwhile, back in La-La Land, erm I mean D.C., Obama has a talk with Bernie


Obama, Sanders Said to Speak as Endorsement of Clinton Planned

  
President Barack Obama spoke by phone with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders as Obama prepares to endorse Hillary Clinton after she amasses the number of delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination for president, according to people familiar with the matter.

A person familiar with the call, who spoke on condition of anonymity, didn’t provide any additional detail about the discussion on Sunday between Obama and Sanders, who is trailing Clinton in the race for delegates.

Obama could endorse Clinton as early as this week, though the timing hasn’t been set, according to another person, who asked for anonymity to discuss deliberations. Obama and Clinton aren’t scheduled to appear together this week. The president is speaking at a Democratic fundraiser Wednesday in New York, a day after the last six states hold nominating contests.

But Obama’s plans suggest he, as the putative head of the party, is eager to ratify the choice of Clinton as nominee and head off any attempt by Sanders to drag the fight all the way to the Democratic nominating convention in July, as Sanders has threatened to do.

So I will be curious to see how all this plays out where Sanders is concerned.
Will he bow out now graciously or fight to the end?

Would be funny if he won California tomorrow. LOL
That would probably make his decision one way or the other