Hillary won, Bernie still graceless

Hillary Clinton wins California

Bernie Sanders Team Claims ‘It Ain’t Over’

After decisive wins in New Jersey and California, Hillary Clinton takes a victory lap. 

But Bernie vows to fight on, and on, and on.

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Even before Tuesday’s primaries, the Associated Press had counted enough solid delegates, committed and “super,” to declare Hillary Clinton the putative nominee. 

And after her more-than-convincing primary victories in New Jersey and California last night (63 percent and 56 percent), she decided it was time for a victory lap. 

From above the old glass ceiling, she reached down to Bernie Sanders, congratulating him on his campaign and, looking back at her own emotions in 2008, saying she knew well how hard it is to concede.

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Yet Sanders, rather infelicitously, is still campaigning.

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But Sanders, as ever, presented himself as a man with a mission, a man leading a movement: “We understand that our mission is not just beating Trump, it is transforming our country.” 

Which led him to his boilerplate attack on billionaires and inequality, and, well, nary a kind word for his rival. 

When he allowed that he’d received a “gracious” call from Clinton, her name triggered nasty boos.

“Next Tuesday we continue the fight, in the last primary, in Washington, D.C.,” Sanders concluded to hearty applause from the enraptured young supporters holding up signs reading, “A Future to Believe In.”

For almost anyone not part of the rapture, Sanders still risks looking like one of those holdout Japanese on some godforsaken island, unaware that their war ended ages ago.