BERNIE OBJECTS – AT 8:06 A.M. ET:  The head of the Democratic People's Brigade objects to news outlets declaring Hillary Clinton the winner of her party's presidential nomination.  From The Politico: 

Bernie Sanders’s campaign on Monday evening condemned the media for its “rush to judgment” in declaring Hillary Clinton the Democratic presidential nominee, saying superdelegates should not be automatically counted.

“It is unfortunate that the media, in a rush to judgment, are ignoring the Democratic National Committee’s clear statement that it is wrong to count the votes of superdelegates before they actually vote at the convention this summer,” Sanders’ spokesman Michael Briggs said.

The statement came after The Associated Press declared that Clinton had secured enough support to cross the threshold of 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.

Sanders has been adamant in recent days that he is ready to fight all the way to the Democratic National Convention in July, and that he will try to flip superdelegates to clinch the nomination.

However, the delegate math makes Sanders’ path to the nomination all but impossible.

Neither Clinton nor Sanders will likely be able to officially win the nomination without any superdelegate support, but Sanders faces a near-impossible task to overtake Clinton among pledged delegates.

COMMENT:  Unless, of course, as we've noted before, Clinton is zinged by the FBI report.

My own sense is that the "news" of Clinton's clinching the nomination, coming only a day before the California primary, is a bit suspicious.  I speculate here that forces favorable to Clinton may have pushed for this "news."  Then, if Clinton loses California today, she can claim that her voters stayed home because they thought she'd already won.  Hey, it's logical, isn't it?

June 7,  2016