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Trump tied himself in knots, put his foot in his mouth, and Clinton stayed poised Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump (L) speaks as Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (R) listens during the Presidential Debate at Hofstra University on September 26, 2016 in Hempstead, New York  Photo: Pool/Getty Images Ten minutes after getting soundly defeated by Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton Monday night in their first debate, Republican Donald Trump fled from the stage to his sanctuary network, Fox News Channel, and to his reliable sycophant, Sean Hannity. “We’ve got Trump speaking to our own Sean Hannity,” Megyn Kelly said as the two men appeared on screen. “We’ll see whether he speaks to the journalists in this room after that interview. Let’s listen.” Kelly usually chooses words carefully. In this case, it sounded as if she was implying that Hannity is no journalist, perhaps in much the same way that Trump is not a serious presidential ...

Unless something dramatic and unforeseeable happens, the candidates in the US general election this November will be Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Voting results in the last major primaries mean that Clinton, who needed 2,383 delegates to become the Democratic nominee, currently has 2,755, while Trump, who needed 1,237 delegates, has 1,536. Both candidates are over the finish line. Some – most notably Bernie Sanders and his supporters – claim these numbers aren’t quite so simple. Clinton gets over the line only if you include her superdelegates – representatives who still have the ability to switch their allegiance when voting at the party convention in July. If enough superdelegates decide to switch to Sanders, that would change this election. In reality, though, Clinton can probably count on the support of those superdelegates; the Associated Press has been repeatedly polling them since late 2015 and, so far, not a single one has...

How much of Bernie Sanders’s success is due not to his call for revolution but to the fact that his opponent is Hillary Clinton? When Bernie Sanders took the stage in Salem, Oregon, on Tuesday night, after winning the West Virginia primary—“a big, big victory” and “a tremendous victory,” he called it—he had a look on his face of pure delight. The crowd of a few thousand cheered almost every one of his lines; he threw back his head with a broad grin, and declared the town “ready for a political revolution.” To put it more precisely, they, and Sanders, did not sound ready for this campaign to stop. Hillary Clinton has won more pledged delegates than he has and, with the superdelegates who have promised to support her, she is closer than ever to securing the Democratic Presidential nomination. (West Virginia gives out delegates proportionally, so she got some, too.) It would take not only a Sanders surge but a Clinton crash for that to change. Perhaps that’s what Sanders is waiting f...