Clinton campaign memo: There's no hope for Bernie
BURLINGTON, VT — Hours after Bernie Sanders’ two top aides used a news conference to pledge to keep fighting for the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager shot back with a memo painting a grim picture for the Vermont senator.
“With a pledged delegate lead of more than 180 and momentum on our side, we anticipate building on this lead even further making it increasingly difficult and eventually mathematically impossible for Sen. Sanders to catch up,” wrote Robby Mook, Clinton's top political aide.
Making the case that Sanders would need to start capturing big delegate hauls in large states in order to catch up to the former secretary of state, Mook ran through Tuesday’s results to note Clinton’s wide margins of victory in big states and the resulting delegate hauls for her — including 44 net delegates in Georgia and 80 in Texas.
“We have no doubt that as long as Sen. Sanders remains in the primary, he will continue to win elections along the way, but it will make little difference to Hillary’s pledged delegate lead,” Mook wrote. "This upcoming Saturday will reinforce the point: although we continue to fight for every vote, Sen. Sanders has clear advantages and is investing heavily in two upcoming caucuses (Nebraska and Kansas). But even if Sen. Sanders does win in these states, we anticipate being able to win Louisiana by a larger margin and emerge from the day with more delegates."
“In other words, over the upcoming weeks, we intend to steadily add to Hillary Clinton’s already sizable lead in delegates, and as we do, it will become harder and harder mathematically for Sen. Sanders to ever catch up,” Mook added in the memo, which echoed his post-Iowa missive to top donors, when he told them Sanders was no longer a viable candidate.
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