On Thursday, CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked Hillary Clinton press secretary Brian Fallon about Clinton’s path to victory.
“How certain are you that you can close this out and going to a convention with the presumption? Meaning you’ve reached the number of pledged delegates not superdelegates.”
Fallon replied, “There is a 0 percent chance that Hillary Clinton will not clinch this nomination prior to the convention. It absolutely will happen, certainly after California, but possibly even before California, we will reach the number 2,383 delegates that you need to clinch the nomination.”
Cuomo followed up. “How can you be so sure? It would mean winning a percentage of delegates that she has not won often, well all the way throughout.”
Fallon explained that the outcome of New York’s primary, the primaries on April 26th, and the May primaries will get them close, but they will still need superdelegates to win. “[W]hen you combine that with some of the party leaders and elected officials that serve as superdelegates where she also has a significant advantage, we think will reach that number probably possibly by the end of May, if not after California.”
Watch the exchange below.
For those unfamiliar with the role superdelegates play, The Weekly Standard’s Mark Hemingway noted in February:
