Clinton has delegates to win Democratic nomination

[senona]

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

[senona]

Oops, guess Sanders is not too happy at the moment with the MSM


Sanders Blames Media's 'Rush to Judgment' as Clinton Hits Delegate Majority

Bernie Sanders' campaign derided media organizations Monday night for declaring Hillary Clinton the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, arguing that her purported win is dependent on unpledged "superdelegates" who will not formally vote until the party's convention in July.

"It is unfortunate that the media, in a rush to judgement, 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," spokesman Michael Briggs said in a statement.

"Secretary Clinton does not have and will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to secure the nomination. She will be dependent on superdelegates who do not vote until July 25 and who can change their minds between now and then," he said, adding "Our job from now until the convention is to convince those superdelegates that Bernie is by far the strongest candidate against Donald Trump."

NBC News, the Associated Press and other media organizations named Clinton as the presumptive nominee based on both her pledged and unpledged delegate counts.

But Sanders is not giving up just yet....

Sanders has argued that superdelegates — elected officials and other party leaders who are not bound to vote for the candidate their state selected in its primary contest — should not be counted in the final tally even if they have made formal commitments to individual candidates.

His campaign believes that they can still put the nomination within reach for the Vermont senator by convincing Clinton-backing superdelegates to switch their support to Sanders, who they note performs better than Clinton in hypothetical head-to-head contests against GOP presumptive nominee Donald Trump.

Might as well grab a box of popcorn and have a seat

Between the Dems battling it out and Trump's outbursts catching everyone off guard, this is going to be one hell of an election year!!

[senona]

Why the AP called it for Clinton

The Associated Press called the Democratic nomination for Hillary Clinton on Monday evening, catching many by surprise as six states, including California and New Jersey, don't vote until Tuesday.

Clinton became the nominee "with a decisive weekend victory in Puerto Rico and a burst of last-minute support from superdelegates," the AP wrote in its story. "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. The AP surveyed all 714 superdelegates repeatedly in the past seven months, and only 95 remain publicly uncommitted."

The combined total put Clinton just at the 2,383-delegate threshold needed to secure a majority. NBC and ABC soon followed with similar calls of their own.

AP spokesman Paul Colford said the news agency had been in the process of contacting superdelegates throughout the day and evaluating the results from the weekend's primaries.





And though Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign dismissed the news on Monday evening — and Hillary Clinton herself said at a campaign rally in California that she wanted to let voters have their say on Tuesday — the AP now says it will be calling Clinton the "presumptive nominee" until the convention in July.

A little too late now, the genie is out of the bottle.

Nothing like having to backtrack when they should have known better.

[Mystic Wanderer]

The Associated Press called the Democratic nomination for Hillary Clinton on Monday evening, catching many by surprise as six states, including California and New Jersey, don't vote until Tuesday.

This is how they play the mind control game.  Put it in the heads of the masses that she won, and more people will be influenced to vote for her to avoid  any conflicts with their jobs and what not. 

I really am at a loss how people can vote for her after everything that has been brought to light about this woman and the Clinton's in general.

Sigh... just shows how screwed up and blind the sheeple are.   :facepalm:

[Minstrel]

Though dear old Bernie may be lobbying for superdelegates, it seems that the automatic writing is already on the wall.  Clinton is the presumptive choice of the media and the DNC...so, Clinton, it will be (regardless of how many clouds might be hanging over her head).

What a lousy bit of news to have to chew on.
:goingcrazy:

[senona]

Though dear old Bernie may be lobbying for superdelegates, it seems that the automatic writing is already on the wall.  Clinton is the presumptive choice of the media and the DNC...so, Clinton, it will be (regardless of how many clouds might be hanging over her head).

What a lousy bit of news to have to chew on.
:goingcrazy:

Shoot, Hillary has got a freakin' Tropical storm looming over her azz.
Whether or not it turns into something more, only time will tell.

Like everything else, nothing will become of it more than likely....sigh



Yeah, thought that to be pretty shitty on AP's part to print that, knowing others would follow suit.
Then they tried to "take it back" but the damage had already been done.




I think it is great that Sanders is not giving up so easily.
Don't you know it is pissing old Hillary off.....LMAO
Hope it is!!!!

[Minstrel]

...
Shoot, Hillary has got a freakin' Tropical storm looming over her azz.
Whether or not it turns into something more, only time will tell.

Like everything else, nothing will become of it more than likely....sigh


Yeah, thought that to be pretty shitty on AP's part to print that, knowing others would follow suit.
Then they tried to "take it back" but the damage had already been done.


I think it is great that Sanders is not giving up so easily.
Don't you know it is pissing old Hillary off.....LMAO
Hope it is!!!!

As you so eloquently put it ----- sigh
I am glad Bernie is putting up a fight, as well.
Maybe he listened to Trump and is considering going Rogue...I mean 3rd Party...if nothing comes of the DNC.
Unlikely - but - if he hangs in long enough, maybe one of those clouds will burst over Hillary's head, and wash away some of her costume.
...sigh (one can dream)