On Tuesday night, Clinton further expanded her lead over Sanders in delegate count, notching victories in New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota, three of the six states voting Tuesday.
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“Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone”, a beaming Clinton told ecstatic supporters in NY: “the first time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party’s nominee”. Sanders picked up wins in Montana and North Dakota, but Clinton won substantially in California.
Trump said he will deliver a “a major speech” early next week when he will be “discussing all of the things that have taken place with the Clintons”.
Sanders vowed to continue to his campaign to the last contest in the District of Columbia next Tuesday.
“I want to congratulate Senator Sanders for an extraordinary campaign”, Clinton said, touching on the watchwords of her rival-inequality and upward mobility.
In a blog post defending the AP call, executive editor Kathleen Carroll wrote that the process of concluding Clinton had secured enough delegates to earn the nomination was “very straightforward” and based on a survey of superdelegates as well as pledged delegates won in primary contests.
Sanders, in his speech last night, said “the struggle continues”, promising supporters to keep fighting for his agenda of economic justice up to the party’s convention.
Clinton and Sanders are also expected to connect in the coming days, Clinton’s spokesman said late Tuesday.
Clinton also unleashed harsh criticism against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump for his past incendiary remarks against women, Muslims and immigrants and took specific aim at his latest comments about a Hispanic-American judge because of his ethnic background.
Obama called Clinton and Sanders and “congratulated both candidates for running inspiring campaigns that have energized Democrats, brought a new generation of Americans into the political process, and shined a spotlight on important policy ideas”, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement.
Trump went on to preview what Clinton has ahead of her: He blasted the former secretary of state and first lady as the defender of a “rigged” political system.
“I am pretty good at arithmetic”, Sanders said. “Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president and commander-in-chief”, said Clinton.
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Clinton’s triumph came nearly eight years to the day since her first Oval Office bid was spectacularly thwarted by a charismatic young senator named Barack Obama. “But as we look ahead to the battle that awaits, let’s remember all that unites us”.
