This week, Hillary Clinton surged far enough ahead of Bernie Sanders’ delegate tally to comfortably envision the Democratic nomination. She takes nothing for granted, she tells Democrats, but in her recent stump speeches and fundraising entreaties, she paints Donald Trump as her opponent, not the senator from Vermont.



Her success against Sanders has given Clinton a head start to plot a general election strategy to defeat the Republican frontrunner. And judging from her remarks, she thinks the controversial real estate mogul is not imploding by himself, and may outlast GOP rivals.