IS IT OFFICIAL: CLINTON CLINCHES DEMOCRATS NOMINATION?

The internal politicking of the Democratic Party may have taken longer than that of the Republican Party, but unlike the Republican Party primaries, the Democratic Party primaries are doggedly "fought" by just two aspirants who maintained their respective strong political stronghold with clear and sound campaign message. At the end, Hillary Clinton may have secured the required numerical calculation that would see her being officially nominated at the National Convention July 25-28, 2016.

While her worthy contender for the nomination, the charismatic Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, unrelentingly undertake to "fight" all the way through the Convention in what he has described as a very "steep" task, the calculations projected by CNN reveals that after the Puerto Rico's democratic primaries, Secretary Clinton has overstepped the threshold delegate count by 68 votes. Therefore, making her the most potential for the nomination.

However, despite the numerical strength of her delegate count, it is important to highlight that most of the numbers are made up by the Super Delegates votes, which at the moment are not permanently secured for her candidacy. These super delegates are made up of public office holders elected on the Democratic Party platform, and some leaders of the Party. 

In a nutshell, while the delegates permanently pledge their votes for a candidate during each caucus primary, the Super Delegate do not get to vote until the Convention. Therefore, it is possible that these Super Delegates may change their mind. In fact, it is this possibility that the Vermont Senator has clung unto.

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In a statement released by the Sanders Campaign, the Vermont Senator, described the media's rush to project Secretary Clinton as the Democratic Party nominee as "unfortunate". In the statement, Senator Sander's campaign spokesman, Michael Briggs, Monday, lamented this attitude which contradicts the clear stance of the Democratic National Committee that the votes of super delegates do not count "before they actually vote at the convention this Summer". The statement further reads;

“Secretary Clinton does not have and will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to secure the nomination. She will be dependent on superdelegates who do not vote until July 25 and who can change their minds between now and then. They include more than 400 superdelegates who endorsed Secretary Clinton 10 months before the first caucuses and primaries and long before any other candidate was in the race.

“Our job from now until the convention is to convince those superdelegates that Bernie is by far the strongest candidate against Donald Trump.”

Sanders has beat all permutations as he leads a formidable campaign. Initially considered an outsider due to his young membership of the Democratic Party, Sanders has however maintained a winning streak of late. As of Tuesday 7 June, 2016, Sanders has 1,521 pledged delegates votes while Clinton has 1,812 votes. And, Senator Sanders who have been intense in his campaign in California, is hoping to win the California primaries and contract the margin, if not coasting home with enough Super Delegates in order to turn the tides. Hopefully, he is expecting to the pull the Obama strategy.

In the 2008 Democratic Party primaries, Obama initially had a deficit super delegates support, but was able to pull them into his campaign after his vociferous stance on some issues. Sanders is hoping to get the super delegates to change their mind. He had earlier maintained that this delegates were so quick to support the Clinton campaign even "before they knew what the campaigns were all about."

However, barring a last minute change of mind, it is expected that Secretary Hillary Clinton would be nominated, making her the first woman to win the nomination of a major political party in the United States.