Hillary Clinton said Monday that she is “absolutely confident” that she will be the Democratic presidential nominee.
“I am very confident that I will be the nominee, but I’m not taking anything or anyplace or anyone for granted,” she said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” Monday morning. “I’m absolutely confident that I will be the nominee.”
Voters “are really tuning in and trying to figure out what we’re going to do,” the former secretary of state said. She said she can “get results, be the commander in chief and unify” the country.
Clinton’s comments come ahead of Tuesday’s primary in Wisconsin, where she is trailing rival Bernie Sanders by 2 points, according to a RealClearPolitics average of polls. She leads Sanders by double-digits in her home-state of New York according to numerous polls, which votes later this month.
Clinton, who was a New York senator, said she isn’t taking Sanders’ chances there lightly.
“I’m going to do everything I can to win New York,” she said. “I represented New York for eight years. I care deeply about this state. I am proud of the work I did with so many thousands of New Yorkers so of course I’m going to work incredibly hard.”
Her attacks on the GOP presidential field will also continue, Clinton said, regardless of if front-runner Donald Trump becomes the nominee or another person emerges at the Republican National Convention.
“While I am very focused on the [Democratic presidential] primary and getting the number of delegates necessary to be the nominee, I’m going to keep standing up to Donald Trump, Ted Cruz or anybody else who are saying things that are so contrary to who we are,” Clinton said. “That gets to my last test, can you unify the country, or do you want to divide us even more than we already are?”
Clinton currently has 1,243 pledged delegates to Sanders’ 980, and 2,383 are needed to secure the nomination.
