In an exclusive blog post by Lawrence O'Donnell at the Huffington Post, Lawrence tells us that a senior campaign official and Clinton "confidante" informed him that Hillary Clinton will drop out by June 15th.
He could not bring himself to say the words "Hillary will drop out by June 15," but that is clearly what he meant. I kept saying, "So, Hillary will drop out by June 15," and he kept saying, "We will have a nominee by June 15." He stressed what a reasonable person Hillary is.
Um... June 15th? That's it? It's May 7th, Senator Clinton, I think this could come a little sooner. As long as she doesn't keep up with the Kitchen Sink, I won't care... indeed, it would be better to see Clinton win in West Virginia when she's still in the race than it would after she dropped out.
More from Lawrence:
Everything about our conversation implied that he had already had this reality-based discussion with Hillary. He said the Clinton campaign plan is to collect as many votes and delegates as they can right through June 3, then take no more than a week or so to make their case to the superdelegates. Nothing he said indicated that he actually expected the superdelegates to move to Hillary in the week after the final election. The Clinton campaign has not lost its grip on reality. Yes, Clinton spokespersons publicly seem to be lost on gravity-free planet Clinton, but privately they know the end is near.
The source ain't great, but I don't think they'd make something like that up.
Something also tells me that the 6.4 million loaned to her campaign came the same day she "raised 10 million".
But hey, you know what, if she gets out of this gracefully (that is, if she waits till June 15th and she doesn't keep going after Obama negatively) I'll be alright with it. It'll prove that maybe she is a reasonable person, as O'Donnell seems to insist.
H/t to the HuffPo
Update: Meanwhile, Sam Wise Gimgy posts this hilarious video from Monty Python depicting where the race stands right now: