Yesterday Lawrence O’Donnell reported a campaign source told him the race would be over by June 15th. Today Clinton’s campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe told NBC’s today show that she would be out by early June.

“It’ll be over early June,” McAuliffe said. “We’ve all said we’ll be together at the end. If Hillary doesn’t win, Hillary, (former) President (Bill) Clinton, myself, we’ll be over there helping Senator Obama. And, likewise, Senator Obama will come together to help Hillary if she’s the nominee.”

Though McAuliffe insisted Clinton was still fighting to win the remaining states, her loss of the Democratic nomination, barring some unforseen incident, is all but guaranteed. Former Clinton confidant and ABC news Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos suggested Hillary was staying in the race to guarantee a VP spot on the ticket, which he said assuredly she would accept if offered.