Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton arrives onstage during a primary night rally at the Duggal Greenhouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, June 7, 2016

The AP on Reporting Clinton's Delegate Count

On the Media | Jun 10, 2016

Just hours ahead of the final primary contests on Tuesday, the Associated Press reported Hillary Clinton as the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. The statement, which was based on the AP's own survey of superdelegates, sent the media into a frenzy and prompted outrage from Bernie Sanders supporters who claim that the news may have hurt Sanders' chances in one of the biggest primary nights of the election.

But Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of the Associated Press, has a simple explanation: if you have the news, you report it, no matter when it comes in.

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