Still4Hill

In a week and a day, Hillary Clinton will become the first woman ever to clinch the nomination of a major U.S. party for the presidency. It is likely that this will happen as the polls close in New Jersey on June 7. By the time the western polls, particularly California, close, she will likely have topped the required 2383 delegates by a few hundred.  All during this primary season, she has remained well ahead of the field and of the last remaining challenger.  Hillary was much closer to Barack Obama’s heels in 2008.  This time around she will score a decisive win.

To see the headlines of the past few days, you would think Bernie Sanders was breathing down her neck.  He, in fact, is a third of the track behind her.

Report: Bernie Now Wants a Say In Hillary’s Cabinet Picks.

By Susan Madrak

May 23, 2016

Jonathan Martin, NY Times national political correspondent, told CNN that Bernie won’t be satisfied with symbolic platform committee spots, he wants a say in Hillary’s presidential appointments.

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May 23, 2016

Sanders names Cornel West, Keith Ellison to DNC platform committee

By Ben Kamisar

Top Bernie Sanders supporters Dr. Cornel West and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) will be among those on the Democratic Party’s important Platform Drafting Committee after the Vermont senator won a key concession as he looks to leave his mark on the party’s platform.
The roster of the drafting committee, released by the Democratic National Committee on Monday, reflects the party’s agreement that Sanders would have five supporters on the committee, compared to six for Hillary Clinton.
Sanders previously panned DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who appoints all of the committee members, for failing to include enough of his supporters on an initial list. But the latest statement notes that Wasserman Schultz allocated the campaign’s seats “proportionally according to the current vote tally.”

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Did Bernie Sanders deliver an ultimatum that Debbie Wasserman Schultz should be fired?

By Chris Cillizza May 26

The big questions left in the Democratic presidential race are when Bernie Sanders will exit the contest and, relatedly, what he will extract by way of concessions from Hillary Clinton for doing so. Sanders has been relatively quiet about specific asks to date. But, in an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Thursday, Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver seemed to suggest that getting rid of current Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz might be a necessary precursor to making peace between the rival campaigns.

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Bernie Sanders Tries To Get Barney Frank Thrown Off Of Convention Committee

By Jason Easley on Sat, May 28th, 2016

The Bernie Sanders campaign has filed an official challenge to the credentials of Gov. Daniel Malloy and Barney Frank to serve as chair and co-chair of key committees at the Democratic convention because they are, “aggressive attack surrogates for Clinton.”

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May 28, 2016

DNC rejects Sanders’s request to remove committee chairs

By Alexander Bolton

Senior Democratic National Committee (DNC) officials have rejected a request from Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s campaign to change the leadership of two crucial committees at the national convention this summer.

Jim Roosevelt and Lorraine Miller, co-chairs of the Rules and Bylaws Committee, dismissed a request to remove Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy and former Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank as co-chairmen of the convention’s platform and rules committees, respectively.

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And just today ….

Bernie Sanders Warns Hillary Clinton on Running Mate Pick

Sanders says he wants Clinton to pick a hardline progressive running mate

Vermont Bernie Sanders warned democratic rival Hillary Clinton that her pick for running mate will be critical to winning over his supporters going into the general election.

During an interview to air Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sanders said told Chuck Todd that Clinton needs “a candidate who can excite working families, excite young people, bring them into the political process and create a large voter turnout.”

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 The Democratic Party has been very kind and inclusive to Bernie Sanders who is new to the party and remains officially an Independent in the Senate.  When the primaries end in the District of Columbia on June 14, Bernie Sanders will become an also-ran.  He has said he would support Hillary’s candidacy.  We can hope he will do so with the kind of grace and fervor with which Hillary supported the Obama-Biden ticket in 2008.

UNITY, NH-6/27/08- Dem. Presidential candidate Barack Obama was joined on the podium by Hillary Clinton, his democratic rival in a hard-fought primary, in a field behind the elementary school in the tiny town of Unity, N.H. Friday afternoon. Courant PHOTO BY STEPHEN DUNN ORG XMIT: 10008608A

UNITY, NH-6/27/08- Dem. Presidential candidate Barack Obama was joined on the podium by Hillary Clinton, his democratic rival in a hard-fought primary, in a field behind the elementary school in the tiny town of Unity, N.H. Friday afternoon. Courant PHOTO BY STEPHEN DUNN ORG XMIT: 10008608A