Hillary Clinton Will Claim a Historic Victory Tuesday Night—and the Media Should Cover It That Way

[workinclasszero]

But Sanders and his voters deserve time to think about their next steps, too.
By Joan WalshTwitterTODAY 12:52 PM

Hillary Clinton needs just 24 more delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination, when the total of delegates she’s won in primaries and caucuses are combined with her superdelegate supporters. Assuming she wins New Jersey on Tuesday night—and she is leading there 64-36 in the latest polls—she will get them, hours before the polls close in California, where she and Senator Bernie Sanders are still locked in a tight race.

She will win the nomination Tuesday night, no matter what the Sanders campaign says about superdelegates (more on that in a minute.) She will become the first woman major-party nominee for the presidency, and she should claim that victory for herself, and for the tens of millions of women who support her. And the media should cover it as the historic event that it is.

http://www.thenation.com/article/hillary-clinton-will-claim-a-historic-victory-tuesday-night-and-the-media-should-cover-it-that-way/

[LisaM]

1. They won't. They completely took that narrative away from us.

I really resent that, actually, but I'm trying to deal with it.

[SunSeeker]

2. The media may not get it, but the voters do.

I was canvassing in Southern California yesterday and the most common comment from the Dem voters I spoke with was something along the lines of "I voted for the first African American President and now I am going to vote for the first woman." Voters are very proud of this fact, even if the media is not.

[workinclasszero]

6. "I voted for the first African American President and now I am going to vote for the first woman."

I feel the same and proud to do so!

[BlueMTexpat]

9. +1!

I am SO excited!

[George II]

3. I think they will - both CNN and MSNBC have been discussing this prospect all day.

[caquillo]

4. Oy!

Did you read the one comment on there?

Robert Weldon says:
June 6, 2016 at 1:14 pm
Hillary Clinton wins nothing Tuesday night I am so sick of Joan Walsh THIS IS NOT JOURNALISM. THIS IS CAMPAIGN PROPAGANDA. Again you are making me sad to be a subscriber to the Nation.

Are these people beyond salvation?

[BobbyDrake]

8. In a word, "YES." nt

[teamster633]

10. Salvation is only for the saved.

The only way to receive salvation is if you accept Bernard Sanders as you personal savior.

[caquillo]

11. Ha!

Good one.

[beachbumbob]

5. No doubt the media will and sanders campaign is dead

2008 just did Bernie on being the consumate hypocrite....all questions to Bernie will be why the rules are changed from a black man and a female....what bull rep can be made up?.,,, either supers count or they don't

[UtahLib]

7. The media should

while calling out BS for the bitter sore loser that he is.

[Cha]

12. Excellent point from Joan Walsh.. Gracias, working!

Notice that it’s treated as a big, historic occasion; Obama doesn’t share the headline with Clinton. There’s no hedged “Obama claims victory, but Clinton vows to fight on” at the top of the paper of record. The headline and story cover Obama’s proud claim to a historic victory, and it’s treated as a done deal. While it’s true Clinton didn’t concede that night, the next day she scheduled her concession speech in Washington, DC, for the following Saturday. On June 7, 2008—eight years to the day before she will clinch the 2016 nomination—she paid tribute to her voters, those “18 million cracks in the highest and hardest glass ceiling”—and asked them to support Obama.