Bernie Sanders Team: Not Over Yet
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After decisive wins in New Jersey and California, Hillary Clinton takes a victory lap. But Bernie vows to fight on, and on, and on.
The Democratic primary contest that no one saw coming between the woman who would be president and a gnarly socialist senator from Vermont is finally, finally—but, ahem, not entirely—over.
Even before Tuesday’s primaries, the Associated Press had counted enough solid delegates, committed and “super,” to declare Hillary Clinton the putative nominee. And after her more-than-convincing primary victories in New Jersey and California last night (63 percent and 56 percent), she decided it was time for a victory lap.
From above the old glass ceiling, she reached down to Bernie Sanders, congratulating him on his campaign and, looking back at her own emotions in 2008, saying she knew well how hard it is to concede.
So much for noblesse oblige. Clinton’s schedule in the coming days, with stops in Ohio and Pennsylvania, is focused on the general election and the looming menace of Donald Trump. The real message to Bernie: Bye, Felicia.
Yet Sanders, rather infelicitously, is still campaigning.
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