Hillary
Clinton will win the Puerto Rico Democratic primary, according to a CNN
projection, putting her on the cusp of clinching the party's
presidential nomination.
Clinton
is not expected to win all 60 delegates that were at stake Sunday,
which would have put her over the top in the nomination battle against
rival Bernie Sanders. She remains shy of the 2,383 she needs to win the
Democratic nomination.
Clinton is
closing in on a historic nomination as the first female presidential
nominee with one more round of states -- California, New Jersey, New
Mexico, South Dakota and Montana -- set to vote Tuesday. Her nomination
would become official during the Democratic National Convention in
Philadelphia.
She'll become the first-ever female nominee of a major political party.
Her
total delegate haul includes superdelegates, party officials who are
unbound and can switch their support at any time. Those superdelegates
have overwhelmingly supported Clinton over Sanders, but could
technically change their position.
Sanders has repeatedly said he'll lobby them to do just that.
He
said Saturday that the Democratic convention would be contested. Asked
by reporters Sunday if that was still his position, he simply responded:
"Absolutely."
Sanders even elevated his attacks on Clinton on CNN's "State of the Union,"
saying he is bothered by the potential conflict-of-interest of the
Clinton Foundation's acceptance of gifts from foreign governments during
her tenure as secretary of state.
He
also cast Clinton as too hawkish, criticizing her push to intervene in
Libya, create a no-fly zone in Syria and vote to go to war in Iraq.
"I worry about that, yeah, I do. I think her support for the war in Iraq was not just an aberration," Sanders said.
For her part, Clinton is making a push for party unity -- and saying she expects Sanders to follow suit.
"After
Tuesday, I'm going to do everything I can to reach out, to try to unify
the Democratic Party, and I expect Sen. Sanders to do the same,"
Clinton said Sunday on "State of the Union."
"And
we will come together and be prepared to go to the convention in a
unified way, to make our case, to leave the convention, to go into the
general election to defeat Donald Trump," Clinton said.
Sources CNN
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