After a grueling campaign and race that has packed as much sensation as a presidential election itself, the AP is reporting that Hillary Clinton has clinched the number of delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination.
In a series of tweets, presumably in efforts not to deter the voting process, the former Secretary of State and first lady to 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, told her supporters, “We are on the brink of a historic moment, but we still have work to do.”
The “work” she and her team already put in reportedly includes obtaining the 2,383 delegates earlier today (June 6) needed to become the presumptive Democratic nominee thanks to a victory in Puerto Rico over the weekend. According to the Associated Press tally, 571 of that number represents the support of superdelegates.
Her opponent, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, says he plans on rallying superdelegates (who have the ability to switch their position; much like a politician) that he is the proper candidate for office. The AP has been on top of those statistics as well, noting how no superdelegates have flipped to supporting Sanders after putting their votes down for Hillary since their survey began at the tail end of 2015.
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Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs tells the AP, “Our job from now until the convention is to convince those superdelegates that Bernie is by far the strongest candidate against Donald Trump,” hinting at a vow that a concession won’t happen until later this summer.
Trump, who took home the Republican nomination on May 26, has already become one of the more controversial presidential candidates in recent memory, even getting a stern warning from the GOP party who reluctantly chose to accept him.
They are worried that he may have hurt the party’s ability to win over the Latino vote for years to come.
This coming November will inevitably be must-see-tv month.
