Lawrence O’Donnell at The Huffington Post claims to have inside information:
A senior campaign official and Clinton confidante has told me that there will be a Democratic nominee by June 15. He could not bring himself to say the words “Hillary will drop out by June 15,” but that is clearly what he meant. I kept saying, “So, Hillary will drop out by June 15,” and he kept saying, “We will have a nominee by June 15.” He stressed what a reasonable person Hillary is.
Everything about our conversation implied that he had already had this reality-based discussion with Hillary. He said the Clinton campaign plan is to collect as many votes and delegates as they can right through June 3, then take no more than a week or so to make their case to the superdelegates.
The question is, why bother waiting that long ? What could possibly change between now and June 15th that would make the end game any different ? Yes, Hillary is likely to win, and win big, in states like West Virginia and Kentucky, but there isn’t anything she can accomplish there, or in Puerto Rico, that will put her any closer to making a credible case for the nomination.
Is it really all about ego now ?
