#NewJersey : Hillary Clinton will clinch the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, Shining India & EK Mulakat Survey projects, becoming the first woman in American history to top the ticket of a major political party.Eight years to the day after she conceded to rival Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary, the former first lady and secretary of state now becomes the presumptive 2016 nominee with the help of delegates in New Jersey, where polls closed earlier Tuesday night. Clinton will win the state of New Jersey outright, Shining India News & EK Mulakat Survey projects, while also winning enough of the state’s delegates to easily surpass the 2,383 needed to clinch the nomination.
On the GOP side, can project that Donald Trump — the only major Republican left in the race — will win primaries in New Jersey, South Dakota and New Mexico.
Hillary Clinton’s victory, however, is based in part on the support of superdelegates, who do not technically vote for a nominee until the Democratic National Convention next month. Democratic rival Bernie Sanders has vowed to stay in the race in hopes of convincing enough superdelegates to abandon Clinton and support him instead.
It remains to be seen whether Sanders will make good on that threat – the decision may rest in part on whether he wins the marquee primary in California, where polls close late Tuesday night.
New Jersey and California were among six states voting Tuesday – alongside Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota.
Voting formally ends next week when the District of Columbia holds its Democratic primary.
Even before Tuesday’s contests, both parties effectively had their presumptive nominees. Trump clinched the nomination last month as late support from unbound delegates put him over the top, and his remaining rivals suspended their campaigns. The Associated Press declaredMonday night that Clinton had hit the 2,383-delegate mark, thanks to a burst of support from free-agent ‘superdelegates.’
Sanders’ campaign signaled ahead of Tuesday’s primaries that the Vermont senator planned to keep fighting until the convention – with the goal of convincing superdelegates, or party officials free to support any candidate, to switch to his side.
“There is nothing to concede,” Sanders said in a TV interview Monday night, claiming Clinton does not have the “requisite number” of pledged delegates – those bound to vote for a candidate according to the results of state contests – to clinch the party nod.
Sanders, though, also has said he’d “assess” his plans after Tuesday’s elections, as he heads home to Burlington.
The Democratic Party pressure on him is sure to mount in a matter of days, if not hours. President Obama reportedly is planning to get behind Clinton and start campaigning for her, and senior Democrats have been voicing mounting frustration with Sanders’ campaign.
At the same time, the senator has touted general election polls suggesting he may be better positioned to go up against Trump in the fall. Over the course of the campaign, he mounted an unexpectedly strong challenge to Clinton, buoyed by the support of young and energetic voters whose enthusiasm at times echoed the spirit behind Barack Obama’s bid in 2008. Clinton was dogged all along by questions about her private email use while secretary of state – and a still-ongoing FBI investigation – though Sanders largely steered clear of the issue in his campaign.
Trump, by contrast, will have no compunction about hammering Clinton for what he describes as “criminal” activity with her email use, as the general election race now moves into full swing.
Both presumptive nominees have been cranking up their attacks on each other in anticipation of their November brawl.
Yet even as Trump has seen all 16 of his rivals fade away, he’s still struggling in a historic way to unite the GOP behind him. The tensions flared again this week as leading Republicans condemned his comments that a federal judge of Mexican heritage had a conflict of interest in a Trump University case. On Tuesday, House Speaker Paul Ryan called it the “textbook definition of a racist comment.” by Agencies,
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