Hillary Clinton says her efforts to rack up the support of top Democrats are about learning from the mistakes of her previous presidential campaign and not about trying to discourage Vice President Joe Biden from entering the presidential race.
“This is really about how you put the numbers together to secure the nomination. As some of you might recall, in 2008 I got a lot of votes but I didn’t get enough delegates. And so I think it’s understandable that my focus is going to be on delegates as well as votes this time,” Clinton told reporters Friday at the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in Minneapolis. CONT.
Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg Politics
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Delegate Selection and the Democrats’ End Game by Tad Devine & Anthony Corrado