UPDATING: Hillary Clinton Reaches Threshold to Clinch Democratic Nomination: Reports

Associated Press, NBC News Report Hillary Clinton Will Be the Democratic Nominee

The Associated Press at 8:20 PM EDT Monday reports that Hillary Clinton has gained the required number of delegates to become the Democratic nominee for President. MSNBC and NBC News also reported that Clinton has the required number of delegates.

At 8:50 PM EDT, Andrea Mitchell reported that the Clinton campaign was against the news of the delegates number being reached being reported before Tuesday’s primaries in six states.

“Hillary Clinton has commitments from the number of delegates needed to become the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president, and will be first woman to top the ticket of a major U.S. political party,” the AP reports.

“An Associated Press count of pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses and a survey of party insiders known as superdelegates shows Clinton with the overall support of the required 2,383 delegates. Now the presumptive nominee, she will formally accept her party’s nomination in July at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.”

UPDATE I:
At 9:02 PM EDT, Clinton told supporters at a rally she is “going to fight hard for every ingle vote,” and asked the audience to ensure they vote tomorrow. 

UPDATE II: 9:07 PM EDT –
Via the Sanders campaign:

“It is unfortunate that the media, in a rush to judgement, are ignoring the Democratic National Committee’s clear statement that it is wrong to count the votes of superdelegates before they actually vote at the convention this summer.

“Secretary Clinton does not have and will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to secure the nomination. She will be dependent on superdelegates who do not vote until July 25 and who can change their minds between now and then. They include more than 400 superdelegates who endorsed Secretary Clinton 10 months before the first caucuses and primaries and long before any other candidate was in the race.

“Our job from now until the convention is to convince those superdelegates that Bernie is by far the strongest candidate against Donald Trump.”

 

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