Former first lady of United States, Hillary Clinton has clinched the Democratic Party nomination for president after reaching the required number of delegates, according to media reports.
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Clinton is now considered to be the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party as she has enough pledged delegates and superdelegates to reach the magic number of 2,383.
And while it’s “exciting” to see the first female nominee for a major party, Pelosi said, Clinton’s historic achievement is “because she is the best, not because she’s a woman”.
During a campaign stop in California, she told a cheering crowd she was on the brink of a “historic, unprecedented moment” but said there was still work to do in her unexpectedly heated primary battle with Vermont Sen. “Hillary said at the beginning of this campaign, she was going to fight for every single vote”.
Montana voters will play a role Tuesday in deciding whether Hillary Clinton sews up the Democratic presidential nomination, as state GOP leaders come to grips with the popular surge behind presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
Now the presumptive nominee, she will formally accept her party’s nomination in July at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. A loss here for Clinton would be embarrassing and could embolden Sanders to continue his campaign to claim the nomination through the party’s July convention, despite delegate numbers in Clinton’s favor.
Mr Sanders (74) pushed back at the announcement refusing to relent on his plan to convince super-delegates at the convention that he is the strongest candidate to beat Mr Trump based on hypothetical head-to-head polls.
“Tomorrow, as you all know, there is a very important primary here in this attractive state”, Sanders said, standing in San Francisco’s Crissy Field with the Golden Gate Bridge cloaked in fog in the background.
Yet Clinton showed no signs of limping into the general election as she approached the milestone, leaving Sanders behind and focusing on lacerating Trump.
But at the end of the day, it may be Sanders who has done more harm to the Democratic Party than the nameless elites who write the obscure rules that govern the primary election process. But a win in California, the nation’s most populous state, would strengthen his position. She adds that foreign policy isn’t always considered a top issue in a presidential election, but “Trump has made it about the biggest issue you can imagine”.
The news comes on the eve of the final round of primary contests between Clinton and Sen.
Sanders visited last month for campaign rallies in Sioux Falls, Rapid City and Pine Ridge.
Clinton noted Monday that she has earned three million more votes than Sanders and is well ahead in the pledged delegate count.
Clinton was widely expected to surpass the requisite delegate threshold to win the Democratic nomination by Tuesday night.
The self-professed democratic socialist, an independent and quarter-century veteran of the USA congress, has run a surprisingly strong race against a candidate considered a near-certainty for the Democratic nomination on a campaign that has won over the support of young voters and grassroots progressives.
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Republican concern about Mr. Trump is approaching a high: His last remaining primary challengers dropped out of the race more than a month ago, but the real estate developer has done little in that time to gird himself for a contest with Mrs. Clinton.
