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Hillary will soon be declared the winner. She's actually been the winner for weeks.
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/countdown-heres-how-hillary-clinton-becomes-the-nominee/24900/Countdown: here’s how Hillary Clinton clinches the democratic nomination over the next week
For those who understand the math behind primary elections, Hillary Clinton became the de facto 2016 Democratic Party nominee back on April 26th when she pulled ahead by three million popular votes and by enough delegates to prevent her primary opponent from realistically being able to catch up in the remaining states. For those who couldn’t do or refused to do the math, and have been waiting for the news networks to tell them that the race is over before believing it, the belated formality of the nomination becoming official is now just a week away.
The total delegate count is still not quite in agreement. For instance CNN and the Associated Press both agree that Hillary needs another 73 delegates in order to mathematically clinch the nomination, whereas other news outlets have slightly different totals; our own in-house estimate is 69 delegates. But the number doesn’t have to be exact for these purposes, because the math of the next eight days will be rather straightforward.
Clinton will pick up three to five more delegates in the Virgin Islands on June 4th. Then she’ll pick up perhaps 30 to 35 delegates in Puerto Rico on June 5th. That will put her in a position of needing approximately 40 more delegates heading into June 7th, a day when several states will vote. The first to close its polls will be New Jersey. Hillary will need to win no more than around one-third of its delegates to pick up what she needs in order to mathematically clinch the nomination.
In other words, by the time the polls close in California and the other western states that vote on June 7th, Hillary Clinton will already have officially become the democratic nominee. She’ll say so, the major news outlets will agree on that fact, and that’ll be the end of it. Those who want to pretend the primary was “rigged” or want to keep promoting the lie that it was “decided by superdelegates” can continue to push those fantasies if they like, but at that point no one will be listening. Hillary will officially be the nominee on June 7th, which for all real purposes she has been since late April.
The total delegate count is still not quite in agreement. For instance CNN and the Associated Press both agree that Hillary needs another 73 delegates in order to mathematically clinch the nomination, whereas other news outlets have slightly different totals; our own in-house estimate is 69 delegates. But the number doesn’t have to be exact for these purposes, because the math of the next eight days will be rather straightforward.
Clinton will pick up three to five more delegates in the Virgin Islands on June 4th. Then she’ll pick up perhaps 30 to 35 delegates in Puerto Rico on June 5th. That will put her in a position of needing approximately 40 more delegates heading into June 7th, a day when several states will vote. The first to close its polls will be New Jersey. Hillary will need to win no more than around one-third of its delegates to pick up what she needs in order to mathematically clinch the nomination.
In other words, by the time the polls close in California and the other western states that vote on June 7th, Hillary Clinton will already have officially become the democratic nominee. She’ll say so, the major news outlets will agree on that fact, and that’ll be the end of it. Those who want to pretend the primary was “rigged” or want to keep promoting the lie that it was “decided by superdelegates” can continue to push those fantasies if they like, but at that point no one will be listening. Hillary will officially be the nominee on June 7th, which for all real purposes she has been since late April.
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