– ‘ It’s about time’ –
A strong Sanders night Tuesday, though, will not deny the inevitable mathematics of Clinton crossing the threshold.
She now stands at 2,354 total delegates, according to CNN’s tally, just 29 shy of the number needed for victory.
More than 600 pledged delegates are at stake Tuesday, and Clinton is on a glide path to reach the magic number when results come in from New Jersey, where polling stations close earliest.
She has scheduled a primary night event in Brooklyn, New York.
On Sunday in California she addressed the magnitude of what she is trying to achieve.
“I know we’ve never done this before. We’ve never had a woman president,” she told supporters.
At a restaurant in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Inglewood, where Bill Clinton was campaigning for his wife, patron Martin Jones, 73, said he was “100 percent” behind Hillary.
“She would be coming from a laboratory of experience,” Jones said. “It’s about time we have a woman in charge of our government instead of our kitchen.”
Clinton has recently focused like a laser on Trump.
She unleashed blistering attacks on the Republican in recent days, including a well-received foreign policy speech in which she declared the real estate tycoon’s ideas “dangerously incoherent” and warned he was “temperamentally unfit” to lead the world’s more powerful nation.
Trump blasted back on social media with similar language Sunday.
“Hillary Clinton is unfit to be president. She has bad judgement, poor leadership skills and a very bad and destructive track record. Change!” he posted on Twitter.
It has been a week of mis-steps for the Republican, however. He has assailed the Hispanic-American judge presiding over the fraud case against Trump University, saying his Mexican heritage made him biased against Trump.
His comments have earned rebukes from Republican stalwarts including House Speaker Paul Ryan.
But he doubled down on the concept Sunday.
Asked whether he would feel that a Muslim judge would not be able to treat him fairly given his call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, Trump told CBS News: “Yeah. That would be possible, absolutely.”
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