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Hillary Clinton has crossed the threshold of 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, becoming the first woman in American history to be the presidential nominee of a major party, the Associated Press reported late Monday.
The feat, from a “a burst of last-minute support from superdelegates”, according to the AP, was immediately contested by the rival campaign of Bernie Sanders, which argued that Clinton had not reached the crucial target through pledged delegates alone. It also said that Sanders would continue to campaign through the Democratic convention in July.
Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs dubbed the report “a rush to judgment” that “counts superdelegates that the Democratic National Committee itself says should not be counted because they haven’t voted”. Speaking to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Monday evening, he added that the potential remained for the superdelegates to change their minds before voting on 25 July.
Clinton, who has amassed about 3 million more votes than Sanders in the nominating competition and has a lead of about 300 pledged delegates, has argued that superdelegates – senior party officials not bound to voting results in any state – would not abandon her en masse. There did not appear to be any such movement afoot.
READ FULL STORY:http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...s-democratic-presidential-nomination-ap-count
The feat, from a “a burst of last-minute support from superdelegates”, according to the AP, was immediately contested by the rival campaign of Bernie Sanders, which argued that Clinton had not reached the crucial target through pledged delegates alone. It also said that Sanders would continue to campaign through the Democratic convention in July.
Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs dubbed the report “a rush to judgment” that “counts superdelegates that the Democratic National Committee itself says should not be counted because they haven’t voted”. Speaking to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Monday evening, he added that the potential remained for the superdelegates to change their minds before voting on 25 July.
Clinton, who has amassed about 3 million more votes than Sanders in the nominating competition and has a lead of about 300 pledged delegates, has argued that superdelegates – senior party officials not bound to voting results in any state – would not abandon her en masse. There did not appear to be any such movement afoot.
READ FULL STORY:http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...s-democratic-presidential-nomination-ap-count
