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NEW YORK, (APP/AFP) – Hillary Clinton declared a
historic victory for women Tuesday as she grasped the Democratic Party nomination and the chance to become America’s first female president.
“Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone,” a beaming Clinton told
ecstatic supporters in New York: “the first time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party’s nominee.”
The former first lady took a dramatic step toward the White House by
winning New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota, three of six states voting on the last major date of the 2016 primary calendar.
The biggest prize of all, California, was still up for grabs, but
with polls closed there and 40 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton held a substantial lead.
The victories effectively put an end to her battle with challenger
Bernie Sanders, the self-declared democratic socialist senator from Vermont who waged an extraordinarily successful grassroots campaign.
But Sanders, ignoring the political writing on the wall, vowed to
“continue the fight.”
“Our mission is more than just defeating Donald Trump, it is
transforming our country,” he declared to supporters in Santa Monica, California.
Clinton’s triumph came almost eight years to the day since her first
Oval Office bid was spectacularly thwarted by a charismatic young senator named Barack Obama.
Two terms later, the 68-year-old declared another glass ceiling
broken, setting up a colossal showdown in November with Trump, the bombastic Republican flagbearer.