For anyone wondering about potential compromises emerging from the public rhetoric of the Clinton campaign, today’s conference call with Howard Wolfson, Harold Ickes and Tina Flournoy shut the door on that thought. Info from the inside of Hillary’s camp has most advisers accepting that not all of the delegates from Michigan and Florida will be seated after the DNC rules meeting with both campaigns tomorrow in Washington. The agreement hatched after the states moved up their primary contests is nearly bulletproof, clearly stating that punishment must be handed down in order to keep future primaries free from gridlock-inducing leapfrog moves from Iowa to Guam.

But the public face of the campaign is a strong one against any compromise that doesn’t count each and every delegate for Hillary. Stoic confidence permeates the campaign, although the language is more vague than the raging blurbs used in the past to discuss the delegate fight.

Still, all advisers present on the call were pressing hard for a punishment-free outcome. Said Ickes, “…in the end,  the committee will realize that all votes must be counted.” 

When asked about the game plan if the rumored deal is passed and the delegates are halved, the campaign was noncommittal and cryptically vague about where they would go in this fight after tomorrow. Ickes deferred any decision to the grass roots supporters who actually brought the complaint to the DNC, and didn’t say whether Hillary would be willing to take the issue to the next step and go directly to the convention fighting to count FL and MI.

This doomsday scenario for the Dems is most definitely still an option that the Clinton is capable of pursuing - and is actively discussing. There is not yet a finalized plan for HRC’s post-DNC meeting/Puerto Rico if we’re judging the tone and wording of today’s call correctly. It’s more of a wait-and-see attitude than loud and outright rhetoric that the quest for counting the votes must go on.

Tomorrow will be interesting…