A Classic Case of Casual Anti-Hillary Media Spin

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8. It's click-bait for

Bernie Sanders' supporters. They scour the internet looking for anti-Hillary stuff. Sticking that headline on the front page is great for clicks.

And totally intellectually dishonest. No one was claiming that Hillary Clinton would have enough delegates to actually wrap up the nomination by March. The statement was made with regards to Hillary building a large enough delegate lead that the primary would essentially be over. That actually happened.

Most candidates in Sanders' position would have dropped out at that point. Obviously, he did not. That's his choice, good on him. but you can't hold Hillary's camp responsible for that. the massive delegate lead Hillary built in March is precisely why Sanders can't come close to catching her. If he chooses to take it to the Convention, as he has pledged, again, that's fine, but it's not her fault.

The reason Mook brought up April was not to move to goalposts, but to respond to Bernie's latest argument in his ever-shifting justification for how he'll win the nomination. He's essentially arguing "momentum" because he hit a friendly patch of states, to which Hillary's campaign justifiably responds with, "watch what happens at the end of April," because she's going to win a bunch of states there.

This whole thing is a result of Bernie not dropping out, and nothing else. He certainly doesn't have to, but context is important.