Clinton’s win in New Jersey came a day after she secured the 2,383 delegates she needed to become first female presumptive nominee of a major political party, according to an Associated Press tally.
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“I want to congratulate Senator Sanders for the campaign he has run”, Clinton said of her primary challenger, in a tone that appeared aimed at his supporters who are reluctant to reconcile with her campaign.
The statement said that Obama and Sanders would meet at the White House on Thursday. “You’ve given me the honor to lead the Republican Party to victory this fall”, said Trump, using a TelePrompter.
Recently, Clinton has escalated her rhetoric and attacks against Trump. Instead he made an explicit pitch to Bernie Sanders supporters and other Americans disaffected by the current state of the U.S. political system.
Tuesday’s primary included 26 legislative races – 22 Republican and four Democratic.
In a nod to Texas, a staunchly Republican state she hopes to switch to the Democrats, Clinton used clips of former Gov. Ann Richards and former Fort Worth state Sen.
“Let me thank you all for being part of a political revolution”, Sanders said as he took the stage.
Clinton sailed to victory in Tuesday’s primaries in New Jersey and New Mexico, two of the six states voting across the country. She was biting and sarcastic as she took on the billionaire businessman, accusing him of wanting to win “by stoking fear and rubbing salt in wounds – and reminding us daily just how great he is”.
Obama has approval ratings above 80 percent with liberal democrats who make up the bulk of Sanders’ support.
Both Democratic candidates campaigned vigorously in California, each eager to capture the primary’s biggest prize.
Clinton walks away with her second win in Tuesday’s half dozen contests against rival Bernie Sanders, who won the caucuses in North Dakota.
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump pumps his fist at the end if his statement at a campaign event on the day that several states held presidential primary elections, including California, at the Trump National Golf Club Westchester in Briarcliff Manor, New York, U.S., June 7, 2016. Mark Kirk (R-IL), in a tough re-election fight, even rescinded his endorsement of Trump on Tuesday.
Trump said Tuesday that the ex-Secretary of State and her husband “had turned the politics of personal enrichment into an art form for themselves”. Speaker Paul Ryan called his comments “racist.” He also faces a lawsuit over alleged fraud involving Trump University. With 2,383 delegates going into the last significant round of contests, the former US secretary of state has enough votes to secure the nomination.
In a fundraising email to supporters, Mrs Clinton declared her campaign had broken “one of the highest, hardest glass ceilings”. And with 1,569 delegates, the USA senator from Vermont has no path forward unless he somehow can convince unbound superdelegates backing Clinton to side with him at the Democratic National Convention in July.
Sanders badly needs a victory in California, where 475 pledged delegates are up for grabs, to boost his argument that he has much broader appeal and more enthusiasm than Clinton. Clinton referred to both the Seneca Falls Convention and the amendment that gave the women the right to vote.
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By this week, Ms Clinton was ahead of Mr Sanders by several states, close to 300 pledged delegates and some three million individual votes.
