Hillary Clinton Declared Winner of Democratic Primary Race

History Is Made: Hillary Clinton Declared Winner of Democratic Primary Race

By Sean Colarossi on Mon, Jun 6th, 2016 at 9:03 pm

Hillary Clinton has officially earned enough delegates to make history as the first woman to lead a major party ticket.

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Hillary Clinton has earned enough delegates to become the presumptive Democratic nominee and winner of a spirited primary campaign contest against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Associated Press reported on Monday night.

A combination of pledged and superdelegates pushed the former Secretary of State over the mark and will make her the first female candidate to secure the nomination of a major political party in the United States.

The AP just tweeted this out a short time ago:

BREAKING: @AP finds Clinton reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for presidentpic.twitter.com/e473F0G4vX

— The Associated Press (@AP) June 7, 2016

The news comes as voters in six states– California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota – prepare to cast their votes tomorrow in contests that were seen as the likeliest scenario for Clinton to cross the delegate threshold.

Instead, on Monday night, the AP calculated that enough superdelegates had declared their support for Clinton, officially giving her the required number to become the presumptive nominee before voters even weigh in during the much-anticipated June 7 primaries.

Tomorrow, however, Clinton will clinch a majority of both the popular vote and pledged delegate count.

The news isn’t all that surprising – the math has favored the former Secretary of State for months – but it’s important that the media give it the historical recognition it deserves.

As Joan Walsh of The Nation wrotetoday, “I hope news organizations go back and look at their 2008 coverage of Obama’s win, and think about what that means for covering Clinton’s Tuesday night.”