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Hillary Clinton “I am the presumptive nominee” – declares herself Democratic presidential nominee after Tuseday night’s primary wins

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><strong>Hillary Clinton delivering her general election themed victory speech after declaring herself winner<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h3><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1c0303&semi;"><strong> &&num;8220&semi;Together&comma; we secured the Democratic nomination&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;For the first time ever&comma; a woman will be a major party&&num;8217&semi;s nominee to become President of the United States&period;&&num;8221&semi; &&num;8211&semi; Sen Hillary Clinton<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1c0303&semi;"><strong>Former First lady poised Hillary Clinton one victory away from becoming first female president of America&comma; under the democratic banner<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1c0303&semi;"><strong>Declares herself Democratic presidential nominee after a night of show stopping primaries wins in NJ&comma;  SD&comma; MT&comma;NM &&num;8211&semi; double digits lead in CA<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h3><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1c0303&semi;"><strong>Bernie Sanders wins North Dakota and vows to &&num;8216&semi;take it all the way to the convention&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-29994" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;hillary&lowbar;bernie1&period;png" alt&equals;"hillary&lowbar;bernie1&period;png" width&equals;"972" height&equals;"336" &sol;>Hilllary may have declared herself winner of the democratic party primaries&comma; the dillema is&comma; how does she sway the teeming &&num;8216&semi;Bernie or bust&&num;8217&semi; throngs to back her candidacy&quest;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Hillary Clinton has made history as the first woman to lead a major party in the race for the White House and immediately sued for party unityin her victory speech&comma; appealing to Sanders’ voters on policy grounds&period; She noted that they share an enemy and made the case that collectively they could produce change&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If we stand together&comma; we will rise together because we are stronger together&comma;” Clinton said&period;The former first lady&comma; declared herself the Democratic nominee for US president &comma; saying she has made history as the first woman to lead a major party in the race for the White House &period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The former secretary of state beat rival Bernie Sanders in the New Jersey primary&comma; expanding her lead a day after she captured the number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination &period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a fundraising email to supporters&comma; Clinton&comma; 68&comma; said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Together&comma; we secured the Democratic nomination&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;For the first time ever&comma; a woman will be a major party&&num;8217&semi;s nominee to become President of the United States&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-29987" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;hill&lowbar;clinton&lowbar;wins3&period;png" alt&equals;"hill&lowbar;clinton&lowbar;wins3&period;png" width&equals;"495" height&equals;"520" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>New Jersey was one of six states holding contests on Tuesday&comma; including California&comma; the big prize where Clinton was still at risk of an embarrassing loss to Sanders&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sanders&comma; 74&comma; was projected to win in North Dakota&comma; and there were no immediate projections in Montana&comma; New Mexico or South Dakota in the final series of big presidential nominating battles that began on February 1 in Iowa&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The District of Columbia&comma; the last to vote&comma; holds a Democratic primary next Tuesday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In her email&comma; Clinton declared her campaign had broken &&num;8220&semi;one of the highest&comma; hardest glass ceilings&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She also wrote on Twitter&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Tonight&comma; we can say with pride that&comma; in America&comma; there is no barrier too great and no ceiling too high to break&period;<img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-29982" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;hill&lowbar;clinton&lowbar;wins5&period;png" alt&equals;"hill&lowbar;clinton&lowbar;wins5&period;png" width&equals;"506" height&equals;"682" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;To every little girl who dreams big&colon; Yes&comma; you can be anything you want &&num;8211&semi; even president&period; Tonight is for you&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Daughter Chelsea Clinton shared her mother&&num;8217&semi;s tweet and said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;So proud of you&comma; Mom &amp&semi; grateful little girls can grow up knowing they can run for president&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-29984" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;hill&lowbar;clinton&lowbar;wins4&period;png" alt&equals;"hill&lowbar;clinton&lowbar;wins4&period;png" width&equals;"508" height&equals;"194" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s race against Trump&comma; 69&comma; will unfold as she faces an ongoing investigation of her use of a personal email server while secretary of state&period; Opinion polls show the controversy has hurt Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s ratings on honesty and trustworthiness&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Clinton&comma; who now must try to unify the party and win over Sanders supporters&comma; has compiled a video tying her to women&&num;8217&semi;s rights movements in American history&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She wants to move beyond the primary battle and turn her attention to Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-30014" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;bernie-sanders4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"bernie-sanders4&period;jpg" width&equals;"609" height&equals;"343" &sol;><&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Sen bernie Sanders&comma; fights to carry fight to Philadephia in July to sway superdelegates<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>But Sanders&comma; a democratic socialist US senator from Vermont&comma; has vowed to stay in until July&&num;8217&semi;s party convention that formally picks the nominee&comma; defying growing pressure from party leaders to exit the race&period; Sanders has commanded huge crowds&comma; galvanizing younger voters with promises to address economic inequality&period; Clinton has edged him out&comma; particularly among older voters&comma; with a more pragmatic campaign focused on building on President Barack Obama&&num;8217&semi;s policies&period; Sanders was determined to stay in the race&comma; even after Clinton clinched the number of delegates needed to win the nomination&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-30016" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;06&sol;hill&lowbar;clinton&lowbar;wins6&period;png" alt&equals;"hill&lowbar;clinton&lowbar;wins6&period;png" width&equals;"696" height&equals;"324" &sol;>Under Democratic National Committee rules&comma; most delegates to the July 25-28 convention in Philadelphia are awarded by popular votes in state-by-state elections&comma; and Clinton has a clear lead in those pledged delegates&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;But the delegate count also includes superdelegates&comma; party leaders who can change their minds at any time&period; Clinton&&num;8217&semi;s superdelegate support outnumbers Sanders&&num;8217&semi; by more than 10 to 1&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The Sanders&&num;8217&semi; campaign has said it can still persuade superdelegates to switch to him&comma; although in practice superdelegates who have announced their intentions are unlikely to change their minds&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sanders would have to get more than 60 percent of the superdelegates backing Clinton to switch their votes but has yet to convert a single delegate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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