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brooklynite

(93,861 posts)
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 08:45 PM Jun 2016

Clinton poised for weekend bounce

Politico:

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have both offered plans to solve Puerto Rico's debt crisis. They've invested a roughly equal number of time campaigning there over the past three weeks. But unlike other recent contests where Sanders closed to within striking distance in the final days, leaving the eventual outcome up in the air, few expect the territory to do anything other than deliver a Clinton victory.

There's just too much history with the Clintons, and too many hurdles for Sanders to overcome in a place where the former secretary of state won by a landslide over Barack Obama in 2008.

While the delegate haul out of Puerto Rico isn't enough to push Clinton over the threshold necessary to claim the Democratic nomination, the delegate-rich island will get her very close. With 60 pledged delegates at stake, after Puerto Rico’s primary Sunday Clinton will likely be in a position to be declared the nominee after the New Jersey polls close at 8:00 p.m. Tuesday.

Puerto Rico isn’t the only Democratic contest taking place this weekend: Seven pledged delegates are at stake in the U.S. Virgin Islands caucuses on Saturday.
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Clinton poised for weekend bounce (Original Post) brooklynite Jun 2016 OP
Nope not with just pledged delegates and all hell will break loose. Didn't you see the Vice bkkyosemite Jun 2016 #1
... AzDar Jun 2016 #2
What do you think presumptive nominee means? Also, SDs put Obama over the top in June 2008. Metric System Jun 2016 #3
That is how it has worked in many a past primary season Tarc Jun 2016 #4
I saw it. He was clear. libdem4life Jun 2016 #6
Like a rubber biscuit? AgingAmerican Jun 2016 #5

bkkyosemite

(5,792 posts)
1. Nope not with just pledged delegates and all hell will break loose. Didn't you see the Vice
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 08:47 PM
Jun 2016

Chair of the DNC on CNN saying DO NOT ADD IN SUPERS>>>>THEY VOTE AT CONVENTION!

Tarc

(10,472 posts)
4. That is how it has worked in many a past primary season
Sat Jun 4, 2016, 09:10 PM
Jun 2016

Pledged delegates + superdelegate endorsements == "the presumptive nominee".

New Jersey will likely put her over the top before the California polls even close. You're just going to have to accept that.

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