Top U.S. Democrats said Tuesday that they expected the presidential nomination race between Senator Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton to end soon after June 3,the last day of the primary season.
In an interview on National Public Radio, former vice presidential Gore expressed confidence that a Democratic presidential nominee will be decided soon after the last nomination contests on June 3.
"There will be a nominee before the convention," he said, referring to the Aug. 25-28 Democratic national convention.
Gore did not rule out an endorsement in the nomination race, but ruled out a speculative scenario that he would emerge as a compromise nominee with either Clinton or Obama as his running mate.
"In a year of remote contingencies, that's about as remote as you could possibly imagine," he replied.
Gore -- former vice president, Democratic nominee in 2000, and Nobel Prize winner for his work to combat global warming -- is probably one of the few party leaders with the standing to help bring the nomination fight to a close.
Another top Democrat, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the USA Today that once the last primary ballots are cast June 3, Clinton and Obama will have "days, not weeks" to make their case to the party superdelegates who will cast the deciding votes in the protracted nominating contest.
But he also said he intends to be the last of the party's leaders to declare a preference in the presidential primary, but he does not believe he will be waiting much longer.
"I think it will end pretty soon" after the last primary, Reid said.
The top Democrats made the comments as Obama and Clinton are competing fiercely in primaries in North Carolina and Indiana Tuesday, the latest critical day of Democratic presidential nomination race.
There's a growing fear among Democrats that the greatest beneficiary of the prolonged Democratic nomination race will be Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who in effect wrapped up the Republican nomination in February and now runs even with either of the two Democrats in national polls.
Source:Xinhua
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