WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign a day before voters choose their candidates in six states (all times Eastern Daylight Time):
12:42 p.m.
Hillary Clinton is just 23 delegates short of clinching the Democratic presidential nomination after her big win in Puerto Rico.
With 60 delegates at stake, Clinton picked up at least 36. Bernie Sanders won at least 20. Four delegates remain to be allocated, pending final vote tallies.
Based on primaries and caucuses to date, Clinton now has 1,812 delegates to Sanders’ 1,521.
When including superdelegates, her lead is much bigger — 2,360 to 1,567. It takes 2,383 to win.
The two candidates now head into the final batch of primaries on Tuesday, when six states offer a total of 694 delegates. The District of Columbia, which offers 20 delegates, is the last to vote on June 14.
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12:15 p.m.
Sen. Susan Collins is the latest Republican to reject GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comments about the ethnic background of an American federal judge.
Trump is insisting that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, whose parents were born in Mexico, cannot be impartial overseeing the class action lawsuits against Trump University. Curiel’s ethnicity, Trump says, puts him in conflict with the presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s plan to build a wall with Mexico.
The Maine senator Monday called Trump’s comments “absolutely unacceptable” and in conflict with what she called, “American values.”
Other Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan, have rejected Trump’s remarks and urged him to unite the GOP.
Curiel has not commented and Trump’s legal team has not sought his recusal from the case.
Trump on Monday said he’s only defending Trump University from relentless questions from reporters and others.
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11:57 a.m.
It will be a little while longer before final vote totals are known in Puerto Rico’s Democratic presidential primary, because the U.S. territory’s election commission has taken the day off.
The island’s Democratic Party chairman tells The Associated Press the commission will resume manually counting votes on Tuesday.
Roberto Prats says commission officials worked until nearly dawn Monday to count the results of Sunday’s primary election.
He said a final certification will likely be issued Tuesday afternoon.
Hillary Clinton won the race over Bernie Sanders. She has just over 60 percent to Sanders’ nearly 39 percent, with roughly two-thirds of the vote tallied.
Clinton is 26 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to win the nomination, according to an Associated Press count.
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11:57 a.m.
It will be a little while longer before final vote totals are known in Puerto Rico’s Democratic presidential primary, because the U.S. territory’s election commission has taken the day off.
The island’s Democratic Party chairman tells The Associated Press the commission will resume manually counting votes on Tuesday.
Roberto Prats says commission officials worked until nearly dawn Monday to count the results of Sunday’s primary election.
He said a final certification will likely be issued Tuesday afternoon.
Hillary Clinton won the race over Bernie Sanders. She has just over 60 percent to Sanders’ nearly 39 percent, with roughly two-thirds of the vote tallied.
Clinton is 26 delegates short of the 2,383 needed to win the nomination, according to an Associated Press count.
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