HuffPo is reporting that Hillary will finally suspend her campaign shortly after the Tuesday primaries.
This coincides with a story in Politico which states that the Clinton camp has been shedding staff.
"Hillary Clinton has summoned top donors and backers to attend her New York speech tomorrow night in an unusual move that is being widely interpreted to mean she plans to suspend her campaign and endorse Barack Obama.
Obama and Clinton spoke Sunday night and agreed that their staffs should begin negotiations over post-primary activities, according to reliable sources. In addition to seeking Obama's help in raising money to pay off some $20 million-plus in debts, Clinton is known to want Obama to assist black officials who endorsed her and who are now taking constituent heat, including, in some cases, primary challenges from pro-Obama politicians.
"This has never happened before," one donor said, referring to the personalized request by email to attend the event in New York Tuesday night.
Obama is expected to claim enough delegates to put him over the top that night at a separate event in St. Paul.
Earlier in the day it was reported that Clinton staffers were being urged by the campaign's finance department "to turn in their outstanding expense receipts by the end of the week," another sign that the run at the White House was nearing an end. In addition, Politico wrote that members of Clinton's advance staff had received calls and emails Sunday night, summoning them to New York City and telling them their roles on the campaign are ending."
Meanwhile Obama has been working hard to obtain the neccessary delegates required to reach 2118 by tommorrow evening so he can claim victory at a rally scheduled at the site of the GOP convention in September.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Hillary to Concede?
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Thank goodness and its about time!!
I hope that she is going to bow out gracefully. It is past time to put this to rest and get on with knocking down McCain. I pray that Sen. Clinton will throw her support behind Sen. Obama and let her people know that the right thing to do is pull together. We need to heal our party. She has run a hard campaign. She gave it her all. She has done what she thought was right. Let us all forgive each other and unite. Only if we fight together with Sen. Clinton and Obama can we save our Country
Clinton is asking want Obama to help out black officials who endorsed her and are now taking constituent heat, including, in some cases, primary challenges from pro-Obama politicians.
Oh well thats too bad, if they are doing their job they should be okay. Now, for our Oakland, Ca. Mayor Ron Delums who endorsed her, Jesus could ask me to vote for him and I would say no. It's because he has not done anything for our city. Crime has gone up and businesses have left. So my point is it doesn't matter who they have endorsed if they have done their jobs as elected officials, then it would NOT matter if BO himself was running against them. We the people are tired of the bulls!@#. And we need to clean house this primary has shown me that our elected officials think this is a game. And maybe it has been but now we as Americans has too much to lose, please wake up people it doesn"t matter about race, gender, or even party if the person best represents your beliefs and vision to make your life a little better. Then you would be a fool not to vote for them.
She must have gotten wind that all the Superdelegates were going to bail on her. There's no way she's doing this as some sort of dignified and graceful exit. She's been ranting about her voter disenfranchisement myth as early as last night, so she MUST know that the plug is being pulled on her and she has no choice.
The race has been over for quite some time now and while she did hold out for a prayer, several of her closest supporters probably signalled that they would defect if she actually carried the fight to the convention. Saturday's vote where several of her supers sided with the majority must have been a blow.
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