Hillary Now Within 100 Delegates Of Clinching

After last night’s results, Hillary Clinton stands just 94 delegates short of clinching the Democratic nomination. The math, of course, is not as simple as that number would make it seem. The Hill reports:

The razor-thin Kentucky margin means that the two candidates will about split the state’s 55 delegates, while Sanders will earn a handful more of Oregon’s 61 delegates.

As of midnight into Wednesday, The Associated Press awarded each candidate 25 delegates from Kentucky with 11 remaining to be allocated. And in Oregon, the AP gave Sanders 28 delegates to Clinton’s 24 with another nine remaining. That puts Clinton at 1,765 pledged delegates to Sanders’ 1,486–a gap of 279 with just a handful of contests to go, according to the AP.

Neither candidate is likely to reach the threshold of 2,383 delegates without the help of superdelegates, party leaders given a vote on the convention floor. Clinton leads overwhelmingly there despite Sanders’s pleas that they should support him instead. Her superdelegate success swells her delegate count to 2,289, just 94 delegates short.

The next contests are June 7th, when Sanders will have to win more than two-thirds of the remaining 714 delegates in order to pass Clinton. During last night’s speech in California, Sanders again vowed to remain in the race until “every last vote is counted.”