Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ (D-VT) campaign is decrying a projection by The Associated Press that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has wrapped up the Democratic presidential nomination.

“It is unfortunate that the media, in a rush to judgement, are ignoring the Democratic National Committee’s clear statement that it is wrong to count the votes of superdelegates before they actually vote at the convention this summer,” said the campaign in a statement.

“Secretary Clinton does not have and will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to secure the nomination. She will be dependent on superdelegates, who do not vote until July 25 and who can change their minds between now and then.”

“Our job from now until the convention is to convince those superdelegates that Bernie is by far the strongest candidate against Donald Trump,” the campaign concluded.

The projection, announced on Monday, precedes today’s Democratic primaries in six states, including delegate-rich California. And it came days after Sanders vowed to fight to the party’s convention.

“Clinton … reached the 2,383 delegates needed to become the presumptive Democratic nominee on Monday with a decisive weekend victory in Puerto Rico and a burst of last-minute support from superdelegates,” wrote the AP. “Clinton has 1,812 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses. She also has the support of 571 superdelegates, according to an Associated Press count. The AP surveyed all 714 superdelegates repeatedly in the past seven months, and only 95 remain publicly uncommitted.”

“While superdelegates will not formally cast their votes for Clinton until the party’s July convention in Philadelphia, all those counted in her tally have unequivocally told the AP they will do so.”

This Tuesday afternoon saw an accusation that the AP coordinated its release with the Clinton campaign by possibly having multiple versions of its announcement prepared, and possibly having given the campaign advance notice of its Monday announcement.

Two Sanders supporters decried the AP’s projection in comments to The Stream. “Privately owned media outlets declare a privately owned candidate the nominee in an extremely disingenuous manner on the eve of maybe the most important primary day of this election year?” asked Michael Longo. The self-described “Berniecrat” said, “It’s disrespectful to the millions of people voting today, and an even larger disrespect to American democracy and those in uniform who have killed and died to supposedly protect it.

Patrick McGuigan agreed. “The mainstream media is biased as can be. They have openly donated to Clinton’s campaign and have given her twice the coverage in order to support her fastidious nomination.”

“Their false reports are pushing us further away from wanting to vote for Hillary Clinton, if she is the nomination and doesn’t get indicted beforehand.”

Despite the pushback, it is likely that President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will endorse Clinton after today’s primaries. Many Democratic officials want the party to coalesce around Clinton in order to focus on beating presumed GOP nominee Donald Trump.

Sanders polls better than the embattled former First Lady against Trump, a talking point often used by his supporters. McGuigan noted that “Clinton has won mostly the early races that are hardcore Republican states that will NOT vote blue in November, whereas Sanders has won the most democratic state that vote blue every election.” Because of this, Clinton “might have issues with the independent voters and Democrats that they need to sway in order to win in November.”

Attorney and libertarian blogger Doug Mataconis told The Stream that while superdelegates could change their minds, “the suggestion that these superdelegates, who are Members of Congress, Senators, Governors, and party insiders, are going to abandon the candidate with the most pledged delegates, the most popular votes, and who has won the most states, is quite simply implausible. In the entire history of the superdelegate system, there isn’t a single example of this group of people backing the second-place candidate.”

“Absent some kind of news that totally upends the race, the superdelegates Clinton already has will stay with her, and the ones who are still on the sidelines will rally behind her. All of this will be doubly true after President Obama and Vice-President Biden endorse her, something that could happen as early as tomorrow.”

While Newsbusters Executive Editor Tim Graham said the AP calculation is “hardly a shocker,” and that “no one thinks Bernie Sanders is going to win this nomination (without an indictment),” he also told The Stream that “it’s a little weird that AP would call this just one day before all these states vote, based on anonymous superdelegates.”

“If I were a Democrat, I might suspect this was PR inoculation against a surprising win or two from Sanders, like in California. And if I were a Democrat, I might whine that this pre-emption of the impact of these primaries is almost disenfranchising.”

Clinton told Rachel Maddow earlier this week that she found it “perplexing” that Sanders would urge superdelegates to back him. “What he basically seems to be saying is that the will of the people should be overturned. I have this very substantial lead in the popular vote, more than three million votes. That means more than three millions Democrats and others voting in Democratic contests have chosen me.”