BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton cemented
her status as the first woman to become
presumptive presidential nominee of a major
American political party on Tuesday night,
when the Associated Press projected her the
winner in New Jersey’s Democratic primary.
Clinton’s victory in the Garden State ensures
she will have more pledged delegates,
unbound superdelegates and overall voters
than her rival Sen. Bernie Sanders of
Vermont. She declared victory at a New York
City rally in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
“Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone:
the first time in our nation’s history that a
woman will be a major party’s nominee,”
Clinton told her supporters. “Tonight’s
victory is not about one person. It belongs
to generations of women and men who
struggled and sacrificed and made this
moment possible.”
The former first lady, senator and secretary
of state technically earned her status on
Monday, after the AP and multiple other
media outlets projected that she had
obtained firm commitments from enough
Democratic superdelegates to secure the
nomination at the party’s convention next
month. However, the AP call was criticized
as a “rush to judgment” by the Sanders
campaign. Even Clinton’s own team argued
that the real “milestone” would come after
she secured a majority of the pledged
delegates and primary voters.
After the results were announced in New
Jersey, the AP projected Clinton the winner
in New Mexico and South Dakota. Sanders
scored victories in North Dakota and
Montana. Voters also headed to the polls in
California on Tuesday, but those results have
not yet been declared. However, even a
Sanders sweep would not affect the overall
outcome of the race.
Clinton’s victory came just three days after
the 97th anniversary of the passage of the
19th Amendment, which gave women the
right to vote the following year in 1920.
Clinton said in her speech that her mother
was born on the same day as the
amendment’s passage. Her win was also
eight years to the day after she conceded
the 2008 Democratic presidential primary to
Barack Obama, with a speech in which
Clinton famously declared that her
supporters helped put “18 million cracks” in
the “glass ceiling.” She recalled that
concession speech Tuesday evening.
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her status as the first woman to become
presumptive presidential nominee of a major
American political party on Tuesday night,
when the Associated Press projected her the
winner in New Jersey’s Democratic primary.
Clinton’s victory in the Garden State ensures
she will have more pledged delegates,
unbound superdelegates and overall voters
than her rival Sen. Bernie Sanders of
Vermont. She declared victory at a New York
City rally in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
“Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone:
the first time in our nation’s history that a
woman will be a major party’s nominee,”
Clinton told her supporters. “Tonight’s
victory is not about one person. It belongs
to generations of women and men who
struggled and sacrificed and made this
moment possible.”
The former first lady, senator and secretary
of state technically earned her status on
Monday, after the AP and multiple other
media outlets projected that she had
obtained firm commitments from enough
Democratic superdelegates to secure the
nomination at the party’s convention next
month. However, the AP call was criticized
as a “rush to judgment” by the Sanders
campaign. Even Clinton’s own team argued
that the real “milestone” would come after
she secured a majority of the pledged
delegates and primary voters.
After the results were announced in New
Jersey, the AP projected Clinton the winner
in New Mexico and South Dakota. Sanders
scored victories in North Dakota and
Montana. Voters also headed to the polls in
California on Tuesday, but those results have
not yet been declared. However, even a
Sanders sweep would not affect the overall
outcome of the race.
Clinton’s victory came just three days after
the 97th anniversary of the passage of the
19th Amendment, which gave women the
right to vote the following year in 1920.
Clinton said in her speech that her mother
was born on the same day as the
amendment’s passage. Her win was also
eight years to the day after she conceded
the 2008 Democratic presidential primary to
Barack Obama, with a speech in which
Clinton famously declared that her
supporters helped put “18 million cracks” in
the “glass ceiling.” She recalled that
concession speech Tuesday evening.
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