|
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton has threatened to prolong
her nomination fight against Barack Obama, saying she may challenge
a decision by Democratic Party leaders on convention delegates.
In comments published in The
Washington Post on Monday, Clinton insisted she is not ready to
throw in the towel, even though Obama is widely seen as having
gained the upper hand.
“We reserve the right to do it.
But I haven’t made a decision yet,” Clinton told the newspaper.
On Saturday, a Democratic
National Committee panel restored the states of Michigan and Florida
to its presidential convention, but with only half of their voting
power.
Democrats in the two states had
been initially denied the right to send convention delegates because
they broke party rules by holding their primary votes in January.
Clinton gained a net 24 delegates
from Saturday’s two-state compromise, which was not nearly enough
to secure her nomination.
“I am focused on winning the
nomination,” she said. “So I’m going to stay focused on what
is the business at hand, which is making my case to the delegates,
and there’ll be time, oh, way in the future to consider the
campaign, because it’s still very much alive and ongoing.”
The former first lady triumphed
in Sunday’s Puerto Rico primary by a margin of two to one.
“I am in this race because I
believe I am that candidate, and I will be that president,” she
said in her Puerto Rico victory speech.
--AFP
|
