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Stabenow: I'll stick with Clinton until end
date: May 12, 2008
SOURCE: Detroit Free Press
By KATHLEEN GRAY
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow said she’ll stick with presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for as long as she plans on staying in the race, but that the end could happen as soon as Tuesday.
“I think the numbers are very tough,” Stabenow said Monday after a speech to the Detroit Economic Club in Dearborn. “But she has to be the one to make that decision.”
After Obama scored a commanding primary victory in North Carolina last week while Clinton won Indiana by only two points, super delegates began to announce their support of Obama, making his nomination almost inevitable.
When asked if Clinton should get out of the race after the West Virginia primary election Tuesday, which Clinton is expected to win handily, Stabenow said, “Maybe … I don’t know. I don’t want to tell her what to do. But I am confident by the end of this month, we will have a nominee,” adding that it will most likely be Obama.
While a handful of super delegates have switched their allegiance from Clinton to U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, Stabenow said she won’t be one of those people.
“I’m a long time friend of Sen. Clinton and as long as she’s in, I’ll be supporting her,” Stabenow said.
Stabenow announced her support of Clinton last year when the former First Lady seemed to be the presumptive nominee, but then “This dynamo named Barack Obama came on the scene and people got really excited,” she said. “Now they’re not choosing between somebody they don’t like and somebody they don’t like a little less.”
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