[Sen. Bernie Sanders , Presidential Candidate:] Look, he does not have the temperament. Is it possible that something will get him angry and he may want to get us involved in a war? Yes, I think that is a possibility.
[Donald Trump , Presumptive Gop Presidential Nominee:] We're building a war. He's a Mexican. This judge is giving us unfair ruling. Now I say why. Well, I'm building a wall.
[Hillary Clinton , Presidential Candidate:] Donald Trump's not just wrong about Judge Curiel. He's wrong about America.
[Wolf Blitzer, Cnn Anchor:] Hello and welcome to election night in America. I'm Wolf Blitzer in the CNN Election Center. Thanks very much for joining us. The polls are closed in Puerto Rico. And we expect to have the first results from that Democratic presidential primary at any minute. With them, potentially we could learn that Hillary Clinton has secured the number of delegates she would need to clench the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. Sixty delegates are at stake today in Puerto Rico in the Democratic primary. That's the exact number Hillary Clinton must have to reach that magic number. After a blowout win in the U.S. Virgin Islands last night, Hillary Clinton is sitting squarely at 2,323 delegates with the super delegates factored in. Senator Bernie Sanders right now has 1,547 also with the super delegates factored in. And while he's vowing to take it to this race all the way to the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, in July, and try to flip those super delegates, what happens in the coming moments potentially could change this race as we know it. We're covering this critical moment from every possible angle. We have reporters standing by live in Puerto Rico. In Super Tuesday's big price of California, here at the CNN Election Center as well. Our entire team of political analysts are also standing by to break down the results as we get them. And we should start getting results very soon. Let's go straight to Puerto Rico first. CNN's Dania Alexandrino standing by in San Juan. Dania, walk us through Puerto Rico right now. What are the folks there saying to you? Are you getting a sense of how they voted?
[Dania Alexandrino, Cnn Correspondent:] Good afternoon, Wolf. Yes, as a matter of fact, I got a pretty good sense of how voters were leaning towards, who they were leaning towards. And surprisingly, besides the fact that Hillary Clinton has been favored dramatically in the past here in Puerto Rico, today, there when were at the polls, they were quite lot of people supporting Bernie Sanders. I have to say people of all ages. A lot of youngsters. A lot of our college A students. A lot of students who were actually casting their first votes. There was a family, an entire family, a mom with her twin daughters. Her twin daughters were voting for the first time and it was actually Senator Sanders that dragged them out to vote. They were convincing their mother in line to change their vote from Hillary Clinton to Bernie Sanders. It was quite interesting to see the dynamic at the voting polls today Wolf.
[Blitzer:] Dania, is there is big turnout, a modest turnout, what anecdotally are you seeing?
[Alexandrino:] Well, I have to tell you, I've actually covered Democratic primaries here on the island in the past, in 2012 and in 2008. And I can compare on both occasions and this turnout has been in my experience covering elections, has been bigger. Obviously, you know, we were at three different polling stations because we also had local primaries. So there were quite a lot of people out voting today. Again, I have to reinforce the fact that we had local primaries as well. So in comparison to other times, yes, it seemed like there were more voting participation. And in terms of presidential primaries, it seemed to me like there was more. For example, the line for the Democratic primary, it was about an hour and a half wait. And people were patiently waiting. For local primaries, the wait wasn't that long. So, I have to say that in comparison to other times, it was a pretty good turnout.
[Blitzer:] All right. Dania Alexandrino, we're going to stay in close touch with you. We expect to start getting results very soon from Puerto Rico. Hillary Clinton says, after Tuesday's big round of primaries she's going to do everything she possibly can to try to reach out and unify the Democratic Party. Right now, polls in California show the Democratic contest there neck and neck. And even though Hillary Clinton may be on the brink of clenching the Democratic nomination, a loss in delegate rich California could slow down momentum, hurt her going into the Democratic presidential convention. Let's bring in our senior Washington correspondent Jeff Zeleny. He's on with the campaign trail with the Clinton campaign right now. And our CNN correspondent Chris Frates, he is covering the Sanders campaign. Jeff, first to you, what is Hillary Clinton talking about today? Is she focusing in on Bernie Sanders and the big contest coming up Tuesday in California, or is she already looking ahead to Donald Trump and a general election?
[Jeff Zeleny, Cnn Senior Washington Correspondent:] Wolf, Secretary Clinton throughout her weekend campaigning here in California has been talking about Donald Trump. She's been focusing squarely on Donald Trump, what she says you know, talking about his leadership, talking about other things she's not talking about Bernie Sanders. But her campaign behind the scenes is working to get out the Democratic vote. That is what's so important this weekend, Wolf. The reason is, she does not need the she does not need to win California. She's already has, you know, is on the cusp here of clenching the nomination. But the popular vote, she wants to build that up so at the end of all of this contest, they can say that, you know, she has x number of millions of votes more than Bernie Sanders here. The reality is, the Clinton campaign, she's working very hard here over the final 48 so. But Wolf, I was struck by one thing she said yesterday. She talks very seldom about the historic nature of her candidacy. About how she would be the first woman president, but that's what she did last night. Let's listen.
[Clinton:] I know we've never done this before. We've never had a woman president.
[Zeleny:] So, Wolf, you could tell there, Secretary Clinton talking about her experience, trying to contrast that with Donald Trump Wolf.
[Blitzer:] Stand by, Jeff, for a moment. I want to bring in Chris Frates. He is covering the Sanders campaign today for us. Chris, what are the Sanders folks saying about their chances of actually winning over enough of those so-called super delegates to become the Democratic nominee by our estimate right now, Hillary Clinton has 547 super delegates, Bernie Sanders has 46 super delegates.
[Chris Frates, Cnn Correspondent:] Well, that's exactly right, Wolf. And so, Bernie Sanders is making the case that this really is an uphill climb. And as you take a look at that math, Hillary Clinton with more than 500 super delegates than Bernie Sanders and Bernie Sanders only picking up about four or five new super delegates in the last few days. The bulk of those super delegates still committed to Hillary Clinton. But Bernie Sanders saying about 400 of those super delegates committed to Hillary Clinton before he was even in the race. And he says no matter what happens on Tuesday, he wants the next five or six weeks before the convention to make his case to the super delegates about why they should switch and support him. He makes the case citing polls showing that he does better against Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton does. That he would be a better Democratic standard bearer. Although, yesterday during a press conference, he even made, he made the case that Hillary Clinton made a similar argument back in 2008 when she was taking on Barack Obama, that she would do better against John McCain. That didn't work out for Hillary Clinton. It still remains to be seen if it will work out for Bernie Sanders. And if you take a look at the fact that he continues to say he's going to have a contested convention, it really will depend on how well he can do here in California. He's been hitting Hillary Clinton very hard here across the state. He's had about 30 events in California. Brought out about 250,000 people. You can see behind me. He's going to do an event here today. Well, it looks like about five or six thousand people are going to come out. They really hope that turnout translates to votes on Tuesday, that he gets a big bounce, he wins California, and they could continue to make that case to the super delegates, although it's got a very, very tough case to make. I asked him yesterday, what happens if Hillary Clinton gets more pledge delegates after Tuesday, she'll have more pledge delegates, then she'll win the majority of pledge delegates, she'll have more super delegates, how can you make that case. Bernie Sanders says that's unlikely and he's going to continue to fight all the way to the convention. Although as you know, Wolf, things could look very different on Wednesday morning. So, Tuesday night, very crucial, we're watching it very closely here, Wolf?
[Wolf:] We'll certainly will. Chris Frates for our reporting. Don't go too far away. Jeff Zeleny, we'll get back to you as well. Once again, any minute now, we're expecting the very first results of the Puerto Rico Democratic presidential primary. You remember, 60 delegates are at stake in Puerto Rico. If Hillary Clinton were to win all 60 of those, she would go over the threshold. That would be a big win in Puerto Rico. Potentially could push her to clinching the Democratic Party nomination. But it's a big, big challenge for Hillary Clinton would be relying on the support of the super delegates to be sure. Remember, though, super delegates, they can always change their minds about which candidate to support. Let's discuss what's going on with our political panel. Our senior political reporter Nia-Malika Henderson is with us. And the "INSIDE POLITICS" anchor John King, our chief national correspondent. John, so, our estimate, when you add the pledge delegates and the super delegates, she needs 60. That is the exact number of delegates available in Puerto Rico tonight. In order for her to win 60, she has to do incredibly well and Bernie Sanders has to come in under 15 percent.
[John King, Cnn Anchor, Inside Politics:] I think the under 15 percent is unlikely for Bernie Sanders. You heard from our correspondent on the scene there, at least there seems to be that's anecdotal. But there seems to be at least some turnout of young voters. Some energy for Bernie Sanders. So, I think let's assume until we see otherwise. Bernie Sanders did not meet that threshold yesterday in the Virgin Islands. But Puerto Rico is a larger electorate. There's been more focus there. More resources spent there by the Sanders campaign. So let's see. Let's certainly gets over the 15 percent threshold. But Hillary Clinton won Puerto Rico in 2008. She won it quite convincingly in 2008 against Senator Obama. She is favored to win. Wolf, even if she gets 30 the Clinton campaign thinks she will do better than half. That she will get maybe 40 and perhaps, even higher than that. Is there any doubt that they have if they wanted to enough super delegates in their back pocket? There are super delegates who have not publicly announced who they're for yet. And we know many of them who are Clinton people. They just haven't publicly said so yet. There she have would she have enough to do that late tonight or tomorrow? Maybe. Would they do that? That's a different question. Would you prefer to let the voters do this, not to do it with super delegates? Because that would infuriate the Sanders campaign at a time they're trying to get Senator Sanders to dial back the rhetoric. But is there also any doubt that within minutes after the polls close Tuesday night in New Jersey, we will know that unless there is a super delegate revolt, she's the Democratic nominee. She'll get very close tonight, perhaps knocking on the door tonight, and then Tuesday night as we start counting the votes, New Jersey's first on the East Coast. A hundred plus delegates there. Hillary Clinton is favored to win. She's going to get what she needs out of the state of New Jersey. Again, barring a super delegate revolt. The Sanders' campaign says, they can flip. Senator Sanders says he's going to focus on them. But also remember what he's been doing for the last month or two. The party establishment has against me. The party chairwoman has rigged the system. The party chairwoman is trying to deny me this nomination. He's attacking the super delegates. He is attacking the establishment. The very people he says, I need you to flip and come over to me. He's been attacking. They're not going to change.
[Blitzer:] First thing. Because we're looking at the super delegates and I know that Sanders' campaign doesn't like to look at the super delegates. But right now, by our estimate 547 for Hillary Clinton, 46 for Bernie Sanders. And what's interesting for the last several months, it's been very similar. Hillary Clinton's numbers have actually gone up. His numbers have gone up very, very modestly as far as those super delegates are concerned.
[Nia-malika Henderson, Cnn Senior Political Reporter:] That is right. And for weeks, he has been saying that his ultimate play is to get those super delegates to flip in a rush at the convention. We haven't seen any proof so far that any of these folks are willing to do that. Because they have looked at the two candidates whenever they did it. Some of them did it before Sanders was in the race. A lot of them have done it since then. They looked at these two candidates and judged that they think Hillary Clinton would be a stronger candidate, would be a stronger president. So, the argument that he's going to have to make is really based on polls, at these hypothetical matchups that he has with Donald Trump showing that he is stronger candidate. But let's keep in mind that most of those polls also show that Hillary Clinton is a pretty strong candidate against Donald Trump too. I think what's challenging for him at this point is that, by every metric, Hillary Clinton has won. I mean, she's three million voters ahead in terms of people who actually have gone to the polls and again made that decision on who to vote for. She's ahead in the pledge delegates. She's won most of the large states that have voted out of the nine big states that have voted so far, she's won eight of them. So, it's really hard I think for Bernie Sanders to make a compelling case to these super delegates that he hasn't already made.
[Blitzer:] And by our estimate John, in order for Bernie Sanders after Tuesday, or even a week from Tuesday, after the District of Columbia, Democratic contest, in order for him to have more pledge delegates than she has, he would need to win almost 70 percent of all the remaining vote.
[King:] Right. Between 68 and 69 percent. And again, what Senator Sanders has done in this campaign. Think about the ads at the beginning of the campaign, what he has done is nothing short of remarkable. And it's actually bigger than remarkable. He's a little pithy vote who has put a lot of dents in the aircraft carrier that is the Clintons. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic establishment. The history of Bill Clinton. However, can he win New Jersey? Maybe. Can he win Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, probably? Can he win New Mexico? Probably not, but let's say he does. Even if he won them all, is he going to win them with 68 percent of the vote? That's just not going to happen. It's not going to happen. The question is, can he get close to that? The main point is he has to win California. If he loses California by one vote, it takes away whatever leverage, whatever moral argument he thinks he has left that he's coming out of the primaries with momentum, that he headed to the convention, you know, stronger than Trump in the general election polls, like beat you in the biggest state. So California is the key here. Now, to the point Chris Frates made, he made the point of the next 72 hours. You can expect, a lot of Democrats are mad about this. But you can understand why Senator Sanders would keep his foot on the accelerator right up until the last votes are counted in California. Because why would you just losing your supporters? Why would you say, I'm probably not going to win and risk deflating your own turnout. The question is, what does he say late Tuesday night or Wednesday morning if Hillary Clinton, not only to Nia's point, Senator Sanders likes to say this is about the super delegates. Why would those 400 people come out for her even people before well, indeed, because she has been a Democrat for 40 plus years, and he just became a Democrat. She is been helping the party including her rival Senator Obama in 2008. She's been helping the party for years. Senator Sanders tried to recruit a challenger for President Obama in 2012. So, as he says, why would they do that? He should remember his own history.
[Henderson:] Yes.
[King:] They are Democrat. And she is a Democrat. But the only argument here is for him to win California. Then the question is, what is his tone Wednesday morning if it's overwhelming. She's won 28 to 21 right now in contest. Pick your sport. If the score is 28 to 21, the person with 28 wins.
[Wolf:] And she's got, as you point it out earlier, she's got about 55 percent of the popular vote, three million more votes than he has got received in all of these primaries and caucuses today. All right. Stand by. Everyone stand by. Up next, did Donald Trump cross a very clear line into major no-no territory? The man who is this close to the White House tears into a federal judge calling him a hater, knocking his ethnic heritage. Across the board, top Republicans are calling that a very bad idea. I'll ask a Trump campaign insider to explain. And we're standing by also for the first results coming in from the Democratic primary in Puerto Rico.