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By winning. and right now we're winning. >> reporter: in fact obama leads in total votes and delegates. >> if we won the most delegates from the voters, it seems to me that it might be a good idea to make me the nominee. >> reporter: roughly 2246 delegates needed to win the democratic nomination, there are 713 that are so-called super delegates. they are democratic party officials across the country that can vote whatever way they please. they are not tied to any votes. clinton's campaign said they have 440 officials so far. that's 20% of the total amount needed to secure the nomination. the c...

Sort of making the choice to use that private e-mail server. now, there's a lot of democrats who say, well, that's great but she should have said that a long time ago. that said, this was a little bit more of a calm tone. this, by the way, with her with all of the members of the dnc gave an address to the group earlier, as well, this is kind of her crowd. she got an overwhelmingly positive reaction from the crowd and showing strength. the questions in the press conference about the delegates and super delegates she has gained support from in recent days and obviously as there's continuing spec...

Want him in a public role? do you want to send the message? right now, you're talking to grassroots activists. is that a helpful thing in virginia right now? look, again, this is no disrespect to eric cantor, but i think the message that it sends to some in the party isn't going to be a positive one. >> meantime, chuck, a new report from bloomberg's mark halpern that hillary clinton's campaign is telling democrats she has about one fifth of the delegates sewed up. >> this is the so-called super delegates. if you followed the 2008 campaign between obama and clinton, whoever is winning in the pr...

>>. [ inaudible ] total that's committed to you? >> we are working really hard to lock in as many supporters as possible. and of course that would include superdelegates. that's part of our strategy, to win the nomination. we're going to continue to do that. and i am heartened by the positive response that i'm getting. hi. >> quite a response you got in there. can you talk a bit about both your own interactions with the numbers here and the degree to which your operation has been a must -- [ inaudible ] attempt to send a signal to your

Potential challenges that you're very far ahead? >> you know, ann, i think it's more of a result of the lessons that i learned the last time, how important it is to be as well organized and focused from the very beginning on delegates, those who are superdelegates, those who are going eventually be elected or named as delegates. and i'm very encouraged by the kind of response that i'm getting. i have had the chance to meet with quite a few of the superdelegates who are here and other dnc officials and members. and they have had a lot of interaction with my team and we have answered a lot of ca...