One barrier certainly fell Tuesday night, with Clinton passing Sanders in the number of pledged delegates, those party activists who are determined by the outcomes of voting. Clinton was waiting until most of the voting was complete before fully reveling in becoming the first woman nominated by a major US political party.
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“Although we weren’t able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time”, she said during her concession remarks on June 7, 2008, “thanks to you, it has about 18 million cracks in it”.
“I don’t use teleprompters”, he said in January, criticizing Hillary Clinton for using one.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, who endorsed Hillary Clinton an ABC’s Good Morning America Tuesday, called Clinton’s achievement “exciting”, but said it’s historic “because she is the best, not because she’s a woman”.
She’s now assured of crossing a boundary as the first woman to win the presidential nomination of any party.
The 37-year-old star also declined to say whether she’d back Clinton if Sanders was eliminated from the race.
While the spotlight is on the former secretary of state, Democratic rival Bernie Sanders and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump also face crucial tests.
The New York Times reported Tuesday that Sanders, who won the North Dakota caucus, planned to lay off at least half of his campaign staff on Wednesday. But he still questioned whether he was receiving fair treatment in the case involving the now-defunct Trump University. GOP leaders recoiled at , with one senator even pulling his endorsement. He tried to neutralize the furor with a statement Tuesday saying his comments had been “misconstrued”.
Meanwhile, Trump won Republican presidential primaries in New Jersey and Montana. “You have to push through the setbacks and disappointments and keep at it”, she said during her campaign launch. Trump has deep local ties as a Manhattan resident and whose branded business ventures have made their way into Westchester in luxury residential units in New Rochelle, White Plains and Yorktown. Reports from his own camp suggest that his campaign team is internally split between those who want him to stay in the race to score progressive victories, and those who now want him to drop out for the sake of beating Trump.
A top campaign adviser told CNN’s Jim Acosta that Trump’s speech was “very important to recovering from these five bad days”.
The AP called New Jersey, the first state whose polls closed, for Clinton, and she will pick up numerous state’s 126 pledged delegates.
Sanders kept quiet after Clinton hit her delegate count late Monday.
Tuesday marks eight years to the day Clinton conceded to Obama in an emotional speech where she noted she was unable to “shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling”.
Sanders’ appearance after polls close in California will be closely watched for signs of his intentions.
The two will “continue their conversation about the significant issues at stake in this election that matter most to America’s working families”, the statement read, adding that the president “looks forward” to building on the enthusiasm the Vermont senator’s campaign has generated.
Despite the losses, Mr. Sanders and his supporters remain defiant. In announcing the crowning moment for Clinton Monday, the Associated Press has been accused of stealing her thunder and spoiling her victory party.
A Clinton fundraising email made it clear the presidential hopeful – who was already declared presumptive nominee by Associated Press – believed the race over.
The campaign argues that since superdelegates do not officially cast their votes until the convention, naming Clinton as the presumptive nominee is premature. But Tuesday’s contests in six states and the candidates’ speeches were full of history, emotion and drama. Clinton leads Sanders both in pledged delegates and superdelegates.
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Democratic strategist Bill Burton predicted that the forces of political gravity would soon begin to take effect.
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