photo by Win McNamee via Getty Images, used on Huffington Post
What a big day Tuesday was for both parties: one bad, one good. What a contrast, with Donald Trump teetering on the edge of disaster in his campaign -- and Hillary Clinton clinching the majority of pledged delegates and thus becaming the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. The first woman in history to do that.
The Associated Press, quickly followed by CBS and NBC, called it for her on Monday night; but that was based on her pledged delegate count prior to the Tuesday primaries -- plus those superdelegates that have declared their support for her.
The Sanders campaign cried foul, quoting the DNC itself in saying that only the actual pledged delegates, not the superdelegates, should be counted in making a call for "presumtive nominee." In fact, the superdelegates do not vote until the convention and can change their mind between now and then. Sanders's campaign is working to try to accomplish that, saying that many of them endorsed her last year before any other candidate was even in the race. The real concern, to me, is that between now and then the FBI may issue its report on the email investigation. Let's don't close any doors until we get safely beyond that.
In fact, the Clinton campaign did not want that Monday night call either, because they had planned a big celebratory night on Tuesday after she had won the majority of pledged delegates. And she reached that goal by winning a majority of the pledged delegates in the Tuesday primaries -- as of this writing just past midnight, she's appears to be winning in California, giving her five of the six states that voted today (Sanders winning North Dakota).
And what a historic night it was. The Clinton victory rally included a video tracing the history of women's rights, which reached its culmination on Tuesday when Hillary Clinton became the first woman in history to be chosen as the presumptive presidential nominee of a major U.S. political party.
Ralph
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