“Tonight’s victory is not about one person”, she said. “It’s about generations”, she said, telling her ebullient supporters in Brooklyn, N.Y., that she and her party should commend Bernie Sanders for the competitive campaign he waged and his arguments for a government focused on ending injustice and inequality. The vigorous debate (between her and Mr Sanders) has been very good for the Democratic Party and for America, she said. “Bridges are better than walls”.
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Earlier in the week, Clinton succeeded to secure necessary number of delegates, including both pledged ones and superdelegates, to win her party’s presidential nomination.
With 92 percent of the vote counted early Wednesday in delegate-rich California, Clinton held a 56 percent-43 percent lead there.
Six states voted in Democratic primaries on Tuesday: New Jersey, California, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota. The results were decisive enough to complicate the Vermont senator’s ambitions to press his case into July.
It’s unclear how far Sanders will proceed while stripping his campaign of about half its workforce, mostly field and logistical staff, the New York Times reported, citing sources close to the campaign. He described the theme of Trump’s campaign as “bigotry”, and vowed to work to defeat him. But Sanders also said he could still defeat Clinton. “I know that the fight in front of us is a very steep, steep fight, but we will continue to fight for every vote and every delegate”.
But if Sanders is able to pull off the upset, he’ll hope to earn a shot in the arm from winning the largest state in the country and could potentially point to that as he looks to make the pitch to party superdelegates to dump Clinton’s campaign to support his own.
Moments before the polls closed in California, Clinton wrapped her historic achievement in the long struggle for gender equality during a victory speech to thousands of frenzied supporters in Brooklyn. But Clinton claimed a slew of heavyweight endorsements from state Democrats including former U.S. Sens.
Despite the dire numbers from the California primary, Berners packed an airplane hangar in Santa Monica to hear what some thought might be the final speech from Senator Bernie Sanders’ campaign as a presidential candidate. “And of course, I wish she could see her daughter become the Democratic Party’s nominee for president of the United States”, she said.
Clinton, in her Tuesday speech, called Trump “temperamentally unfit to be president and commander in chief”. And the determined Oval Office aspirant will meet with Democratic congressional leaders that day also. “When a small but determined group of women, and men, came together with the idea that women deserved equal rights, and they set it forth in something called the Declaration of Sentiments, and it was the first time in human history that that kind of declaration occurred”, Clinton said.
But Sanders signaled he would want to have an important role not just for keeping the White House in Democratic hands, but in shaping the party’s policy platform.
As she launched her campaign a year ago, faced with a ragbag of little-known competitors, Ms Clinton could have been forgiven for expecting a coronation. But it was also an effort to avoid irking the loyal supporters of her vanquished rival, Vermont Sen.
Claire Binder, a 21-year-old college senior, came to the rally to finally be surrounded by fellow Clinton supporters. In a month, she will accept her party’s nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. He said Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, “have turned the politics of self-enrichment into an art form”.
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“I think she had her mother on her mind a lot today and she observed that in her remarks”, Brian Fallon, Clinton’s press secretary, said after the speech.
