Clinton has delegates to win Democratic nomination — AP count

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at a rally, Monday, June 6, 2016, in Lynwood, Calif. Clinton has commitments from the number of delegates needed to become the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president, making her the first woman to top the ticket of a major USA political party.

But Clinton has continued to edge out Sanders, particularly among older voters with longer ties to the Democratic Party.

The Obama-Sanders call came as the Democratic presidential primary neared its end, with Hillary Clinton poised to clinch the party’s nomination after a spate of Tuesday contests.

With her victory over the weekend in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands votes, Clinton needs only about two dozen delegates to lock up the 2,383 she needs for the nomination.

Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has regularly stirred up controversy on the campaign trail.

Clinton now has 1,812 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses; Sanders has 1,521. She also has the support of 571 superdelegates, according to an AP count.

The AP surveyed all 714 superdelegates repeatedly in the past seven months, and only 95 remain publicly uncommitted.

“Certainly somebody who claims a majority of the pledged and superdelegates has a strong case to make”, Earnest said, adding that once voters weigh in Tuesday, “we may be in a position where we have much greater sense of what the outcome is likely to be”.

Under Democratic National Committee rules, most delegates to the July 25-28 convention are awarded by popular votes in state-by-state elections, and Clinton has a clear lead in those “pledged” delegates. Clinton’s superdelegate support outnumbers Sanders’ by more than 10 to 1.

He pointed to polls showing him faring better than Clinton in head-to-head matchups with Trump and his strength among Democratic voters under the age of 45.

“When Donald Trump says a distinguished judge born in IN can’t do his job because of his Mexican heritage, or he mocks a reporter with disabilities, or calls women pigs, it goes against everything we stand for”, she said. She told a cheering crowd she was on the brink of a “historic, unprecedented moment”, but said there was still work to be done in the six states to vote Tuesday. “We have six elections tomorrow and we’re going to fight hard for every single vote, especially right here in California”.

In a fundraising email to supporters, Clinton declared her campaign had broken “one of the highest, hardest glass ceilings”.

Sanders, asked by reporters in San Francisco if he had talked to Obama, demurred. In a statement, his spokesman Michael Briggs said, “Our job from now until the convention is to convince those superdelegates that Bernie is by far the strongest candidate against Donald Trump”.

Sanders vowed as recently as Saturday to contest the Democratic convention. Even though Sanders is still running, Clinton may be correct in assuming she’s now the Democratic nominee, as she currently has 2,310 delegates, including superdelegates, making her just 73 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to clinch the nomination.

At the broadest level, Horton said, the supporters of Sanders and Clinton hold similar, left-of-center views. She won 29 caucuses and primaries to his 21 victories.

Echoing the sentiments of California Gov.

Technically, no. The District of Columbia is holding a Democratic primary June 14 with 20 delegates at stake. “We shouldn’t be acting like we are undecided when the people of America have spoken”.

Clinton’s remarks served to broaden to her explicit nudging of Bernie Sanders, her Democratic primary opponent, earlier in the day.

The Clinton-Sanders battle is playing out far longer than most would have predicted at the beginning of the campaign season.

A former senator and USA secretary of state, Clinton would be the first woman to ever be the presidential candidate of a major political party in the country’s 239-year history.

While those watching the results in Puerto Rico focused on their impact on the race for the Democratic nomination, the focus of many voters on the island was its ongoing economic crisis. It could also help Trump, 69, who clinched the Republican nomination last month, argue that she is a weak candidate.

“He is not just unprepared”.

“If the Democratic leadership wants a campaign that will not only retain the White House but regain the Senate and win governors’ chairs all across this country, we are that campaign”, he said. In a letter to fellow Senate Democrats, Sanders said the house bill to create a federal control board and allow some restructuring of the territory’s $70 billion debt would make “a awful situation even worse”.

“If you ask me about the Clinton Foundation, do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of state and a foundation run by her husband collects many millions of dollars from foreign governments, governments which are dictatorships?” His ability to raise vast sums of money online gave him the resources to continue into the spring.

Clinton secured enough delegates to win the nomination before Tuesday’s voting, US media outlets reported on Monday night.

She now moves on to face Trump, whose ascent to the top of the Republican Party few expected. Many may be already calling for Democrats to rally around Clinton in order to defeat Trump in the general election, however Sanders defeats Trump by a bigger margin than Clinton in almost every major poll, according to Real Clear Politics.

A Sanders campaign spokesman said it was wrong of the Associated Press and NBC News, which made the calls on Monday evening, to count the votes of superdelegates before they cast ballots at the Democratic National Convention in July.