Hillary Clinton has won the Democratic primary in New Mexico, adding to her win in New Jersey.
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Based off delegate projections, Clinton has earned enough pledged and super delegates to win the party’s nomination. The Sanders campaign dismissed the naming of Clinton as the nominee as a “rush to judgment” that ignored the Democratic National Committee’s suggestion that news networks should not count the votes of superdelegates until the convention.
“Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone”, she told cheering crowds at a rally in NY.
Entering Tuesday’s primaries, Clinton has won more contests than Sanders, 28-23.
Sanders picked up a win in North Dakota, where a handful of delegates were up for grabs.
Even before all of the states’ polls had closed, Clinton was embracing the historic nature of her win after she officially crossed the superdelegate threshold to become the nominee late Monday evening, according to The Associated Press.
New Jersey will account for another 126 delegates and the polls will close in the Garden State at 8 pm ET.
But early figures showed Mrs Clinton was on course to win the state.
When registered Green Party voter Christine Peterson, 59, of San Francisco asked for a Democratic ballot to vote for Sanders, she was told no.
“Our job from now until the convention is to convince those superdelegates that Bernie is by far the strongest candidate against Donald Trump”, said the statement.
Trump’s remarks at his golf club in Westchester County, New York, open the way for him to make good on his promise to unite the badly fractured Republican Party.
According to an AP count on Monday, Mrs Clinton had already secured the 2,383 delegates she needed to clinch the nomination before Tuesday’s primaries and caucuses in six U.S. states.
“To be great, we can’t be small…” He also noted that he would return home to Vermont after Tuesday and “assess where we are”.
Political mathletes get to stand down after Tuesday’s votes and the final contest of the primaries in District of Columbia June 14. However, the California results might not be known until later today.
Hillary Clinton declared victory Tuesday night in the Democratic presidential primary race, emerging from a bruising battle as a historic candidate – the first woman within striking distance of the Oval Office.
While Sanders is right that many superdelegates agreed to back Clinton long before they knew how competitive the primary would be, there is no indication of a stampede in his direction.
Dianne Feinstein of California said Sanders and Clinton should “march on to a general election together”, and any Sanders plan to keep fighting until the Democratic National Convention “is going to make that much more hard”.
The contests all but conclude one of the most unpredictable and rowdy primary seasons in modern history – one that saw a brash billionaire clear through a formidable field of 16 rivals to defy the pundits and emerge the presumptive Republican nominee, and the front-runner on the Democratic side locked in a fight to the end against a socialist-leaning senator from Vermont.
In her victory speech, she said young people struggling with student debt needed help and America needed to be the “clean-energy super power of the 21st century”.
The New York Times reported the Sanders campaign is about to undergo a significant reduction in staff. A top campaign official would neither confirm nor deny the report to CNN. Donald Trump got new blasts from his own Republican Party for his comments on a federal judge.
If the trends hold, it would be the first time since the start of direct Senate elections a century ago that a Republican has not appeared on a California general election ballot for U.S. Senate, says Claremont McKenna College political scientist Jack Pitney. Trump vowed to deliver a major speech next week on Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
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Mr Trump has said US District Judge Gonzalo Curiel can’t be impartial because the jurist’s parents were born in Mexico and Mr Trump wants to build a wall along the border.
