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| Clinton and Trump ready for general election showdown – campaign live | Clinton and Trump ready for general election showdown – campaign live |
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| Clinton manager: 'we just stuck together' | |
| Tremors of doubt and reports of a shakeup inside the Hillary Clinton campaign after Bernie Sanders’ whopping victory in the New Hampshire primary – and Clinton’s meager Iowa caucuses win – gave way to a sense of confidence after Clinton won five out of five of the “super Tuesday” contests on 15 March, including Florida and Ohio, campaign manager Robby Mook tells the AP: | |
| “We just stuck together and hung together,” said Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager and a target of early shakeup rumors. “That was a really galvanizing and important moment for the campaign.” | |
| Missouri senator Claire McCaskill tells AP the early moment of doubt was real, however: | |
| “There was a moment when we were worried,” recalled Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Clinton backer. “We thought this will be really a test, can she withstand everyone talking in her ear?” | |
| The AP postmortem has some rich detail: | |
| Gone were the old Clinton hands, with their warring fiefdoms. Mook, a young operative known for inspiring fierce loyalty among his staff, prided himself on thriftiness. Aides were ordered to take cramped buses instead of the train between New York and Washington. Donors used to attending catered events sometimes found themselves on their own for meals at finance gatherings. When the staff traveled to Las Vegas for the first Democratic debate, they had to share rooms at Circus Circus, an aging hotel on the strip that ran $29 per night. | |
| “When that cost gets further reduced to $14.50 because you discover you’ll have a roommate, now that’s the sign of a madman,” Nick Merrill, Clinton’s traveling spokesman, joked about Mook. | |
| Read the full piece here. | |
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| Democratic unity watch | |
| The Washington Post reports that Bernie Sanders’ sole Senate ally and a leader of congressional progressives are calling for unity this morning: | |
| Two top Sanders backers -- Sen Merkley and Rep Grijalva -- tell me it's time to unite behind Hillary: https://t.co/PYGQAODSC0 | |
| Once a candidate has won a majority of the pledged delegates and a majority of the popular vote, which Secretary Clinton has now done, we have our nominee,” Merkley told the Post’s Greg Sargent. “This is the moment when we need to start bringing parts of the party together so they can go into the convention with locked arms and go out of the convention unified into the general election.” | |
| “He’s gonna do the right thing,” Grijalva told the Post, referring to Sanders. | |
| Tom Steyer, meanwhile, the billionaire hedge fund manager / environmental activist, has issued a statement endorsing Clinton, in significant reassurance that whatever may go wrong for her campaign and groups that would support it in the coming months, they won’t soon run out of money. | |
| “Now is the time to defeat Donald Trump,” Steyer says: | |
| Tom Steyer endorses Hillary pic.twitter.com/0BOvOw12iz | |
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| Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Hillary Clinton won big, Bernie Sanders stayed in, and Donald Trump played it straight in an effort to reassure Republicans – that’s last night in a nutshell, as the final states held their primaries. | Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Hillary Clinton won big, Bernie Sanders stayed in, and Donald Trump played it straight in an effort to reassure Republicans – that’s last night in a nutshell, as the final states held their primaries. |
| Clinton claimed the mantle of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, solidifying her likely status as the first woman in US history to be nominated by a major party for president. | Clinton claimed the mantle of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, solidifying her likely status as the first woman in US history to be nominated by a major party for president. |
| Sanders said he would “take our fight to ... Philadelphia” for the party’s national convention, but he dropped mention of winning the nomination and he did not attack Clinton. Clinton was projected as winner in California early Wednesday, by a poll-busting 56-43 split with 94.4% reporting. Our comprehensive results page is here. | Sanders said he would “take our fight to ... Philadelphia” for the party’s national convention, but he dropped mention of winning the nomination and he did not attack Clinton. Clinton was projected as winner in California early Wednesday, by a poll-busting 56-43 split with 94.4% reporting. Our comprehensive results page is here. |
| In one of many signs that the Democratic nominating contest is winding down to a somewhat organized conclusion, Barack Obama called both Clinton and Sanders last night, congratulating Clinton and thanking Sanders for “energizing millions”. Sanders and Obama will meet, at the senator’s request, at the White House on Thursday. | In one of many signs that the Democratic nominating contest is winding down to a somewhat organized conclusion, Barack Obama called both Clinton and Sanders last night, congratulating Clinton and thanking Sanders for “energizing millions”. Sanders and Obama will meet, at the senator’s request, at the White House on Thursday. |
| Earlier Tuesday, a seemingly chastened Trump gave a scripted speech in which he sought to reassure party colleagues that his remarks in recent days, branded by many of those colleagues as racist, did not represent the candidate he was about to become. | Earlier Tuesday, a seemingly chastened Trump gave a scripted speech in which he sought to reassure party colleagues that his remarks in recent days, branded by many of those colleagues as racist, did not represent the candidate he was about to become. |
| “I understand the responsibility of carrying the mantle, and I will never ever let you down ... I will make you proud of our party and of the movement,” Trump said. | “I understand the responsibility of carrying the mantle, and I will never ever let you down ... I will make you proud of our party and of the movement,” Trump said. |
| Trump described a policy vision called America First and said he would soon, maybe Monday, deliver a speech describing what’s wrong with “the Clintons”. | Trump described a policy vision called America First and said he would soon, maybe Monday, deliver a speech describing what’s wrong with “the Clintons”. |
| Clinton did not wait to attack Trump. In a smiling victory speech in a joyous Brooklyn auditorium with the word “history” echoing in every corner, Clinton said Trump was “temperamentally unfit to be president” and “goes against everything we stand for”, and she said “make America great again” was code for “let’s take America backwards”. | Clinton did not wait to attack Trump. In a smiling victory speech in a joyous Brooklyn auditorium with the word “history” echoing in every corner, Clinton said Trump was “temperamentally unfit to be president” and “goes against everything we stand for”, and she said “make America great again” was code for “let’s take America backwards”. |
| Clinton’s delegate stash grew to 2,755, well over the 2,383 majority mark. That number includes the free-range superdelegates who Sanders seemed last night to have tacitly admitted were not on the verge of abandoning the presumptive nominee: | Clinton’s delegate stash grew to 2,755, well over the 2,383 majority mark. That number includes the free-range superdelegates who Sanders seemed last night to have tacitly admitted were not on the verge of abandoning the presumptive nominee: |
| Thank you for reading, and please join us in the comments. | Thank you for reading, and please join us in the comments. |
| Updated | Updated |
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