Too early for Hillary to be sure of Victory: Analyst
US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said “victory is in sight” after winning the New York primaries but it is still too early for her to imagine she is the final nominee of her party, a political commentator says.
“The race for the Democratic nomination is in the homestretch, and victory is in sight,” Clinton said in a speech after the Empire State victory late on Tuesday.
The former New York senator won 58 percent of the votes and 139 delegates out of the 247 up for grabs, while her rival, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, gained 42 percent with 106 delegates.
The former secretary of state currently has 1,930 delegates, 502 of whom are superdelegates, while New York-born Sanders has 1,189 with only 38 superdelegates.
With 2,383 delegates needed for the Democratic Party’s nomination in a July convention, she appears closer to winning the nomination but New York-based radio host Don DeBar told Press TV in a Wednesday interview that that might not be the case just yet.
“I don’t think Hillary Clinton should be popping the cork on the champagne quite yet,” DeBar said.
The low turnout of over 1.8 million people as well as other kinds of “shenanigans” to stumble the voters contributed to her victory, the analyst suggested.
Sanders' numbers
It should also be taken into account that New York is ”Clinton’s strongest state and now they’re moving out to Pennsylvania and all the way to California with a bunch of places in between.”
“Sanders may actually win some of those states by 65-70 percent,” DeBar predicted.
The senator, who calls himself a socialist, said in a Wednesday email to his supporters that he would not give up.
“We still have a path to the nomination, and our plan is to win the pledged delegates in this primary,” he noted.
According to the Hill, “the Clinton campaign has been trumpeting the message that Sanders now has no shot at becoming the nominee.”
Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, dismissed the idea that Sanders could end victorious in an interview with Yahoo, saying his “numbers are pretty daunting.”
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