Hillary Clinton is on the attack – and after lambasting Sanders she is going for Trump

[NCTraveler]

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She didn’t get into personal mudslinging – a pursuit at which no-one will ever best Donald Trump. Instead she stuck to policy, an area in which no-one bests Hillary Clinton. In reality, this wasn’t a foreign policy speech in the usual sense, when the candidate sets out her own. It was a shredding of Trump’s – which, she said, consisted of “not even really ideas, just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and lies.” And it surely pointed the way forward for the Clinton campaign over what promise to be five of the foulest political months in modern US history: showing Americans what her opponent stands for.

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Yes, she may lose. But barring an utterly improbable Sanders landslide, the proportional system used by the Democrats to allocate delegates to July’s convention means that a narrow victory for the self-proclaimed socialist would have scant impact on her lead in pledged delegates. As for the unpledged super delegates on whom Sanders ostensibly pins his hopes, these are Democratic party notables.

Sanders wasn’t even a Democrat until recently (if he considers himself one even now; why should they abandon Clinton, even on the basis of polls showing that he, Sanders, would do better than her in a November match-up with Trump?

If such polls dictated matters, John Kasich (remember him?) would today be the presumptive Republican nominee. As it is, by winning others of the remaining contests, notably in New Jersey which votes the same day as California, she will probably have mathematically locked up the nomination even before results come in from the West Coast.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillary-clinton-is-on-the-attack-and-after-lambasting-sanders-she-is-going-for-trump-a7065331.html

[onehandle]

1. It's over early on the evening on Tuesday.

I'm not going to bother to even stay up for the West Coast returns.

[azurnoir]

6. lol nope it isn't it enters phase 2 then

[CorporatistNation]

7. LAUGHABLE... ON THE ATTACK TO "DISTRACT" FROM THIS!!!

e.g., MSNBC To the deniers... Watch THIS Video... It is not comforting to think that she may well be the Democratic Nominee...

Hillary really betrayed Andrea Mitchell... The entire context of this report was of a solemn nature... A Funeral so to speak...

Andrea Mitchell "I do not see this report as ...ANYTHING BUT... DEVASTATING!"

Chuck Todd "After this I don't think that she could get confirmed for Attorney General!"

Lots of FIBBING by Hillary here.. for more than a year!

[Trust Buster]

2. She looked very presidential co pared to Trump this week. She's dialing in her message.

[livetohike]

3. Good point about Kasich. Looking forward to today's primaries.

Should be good numbers for Hillary today.

[riversedge]

4. Only one today......

I was mixed up also-thought PR and VI were both today, But just read this a short while ago--posted in Hill Group also



By Eric Bradner CNN


Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands to get Clinton closer to nomination

http://www.wxii12.com/politics/puerto-rico-virgin-islands-to-get-clinton-closer-to-nomination/39880658?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=wxii


UPDATED 7:58 AM EDT Jun 03, 2016


Dem candidates Clinton Sanders
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(CNN) —Hillary Clinton will try to inch closer to the Democratic nomination -- and further distance herself from Bernie Sanders -- in two island contests this weekend.


The Virgin Islands has seven delegates on the line in its caucuses on Saturday. Then, on Sunday, Puerto Rico has 60 delegates up for grabs in its Democratic primary.

The contests essentially serve as a warmup act for the big prize: Tuesday's slate of contests in California, New Jersey, New Mexico, Montana and South Dakota.

But for Clinton, who is close to reaching the 2,383 delegates she needs to clinch the Democratic nomination, the two weekend contests could leave her on the precipice.

Clinton currently has 2,313 delegates -- including 1,769 pledged delegates and 544 superdelegates. Sanders has 1,545 delegates total -- 1,501 pledged and 44 super delegates, according to the latest CNN estimates.

The weekend contests come as Clinton and Sanders battle over Democratic superdelegates -- with Sanders arguing that his stronger polling position against Donald Trump should tip the party's scales in his favor.

Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla threw his support behind Clinton, offering the former secretary of state an endorsement on Wednesday in a Spanish-language statement.

[livetohike]

5. Thanks! Yes I thought they were both today