MoveOn says Clinton should be nominee [View all]

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Source: The Hill

MoveOn Political Action, which backed Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential race, is conceding defeat to Hillary Clinton.

Following Clinton’s huge wins in California and three other states on Tuesday, the liberal group said she should be the party’s nominee because she will finish the contest with the most pledged delegates.

“MoveOn members believe, as we have long advocated, that the nomination should go to the winner of the majority of pledged delegates, and that undemocratic superdelegates should not overturn the will of the voters,” said MoveOn Political Action executive director Ilya Sheyman.

In a statement Wednesday, the group praised Sanders for having “revolutionized politics as we know it” and drawing millions of voters into politics but said the presumptive Democratic nominee should be the one with a majority of pledged delegates.

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