After Clinton Wins Nomination Trump Addresses Sanders Supporters

“Tonight’s victory”, said Clinton, “belongs to generations of women”. As she took the stage to raucous cheers, she paused to relish the moment, flinging her arms wide and beaming broadly. She also won in New Jersey, New Mexico and South Dakota. Jon Tester (D-Montana), the current DSCC chair, about Clinton possibly choosing Sen.

Both Mrs Clinton and Mr Trump have work to do to unite their parties behind them but the Democrat appeared to face the easier path with Sanders, a leftist USA senator from Vermont, almost out of options to challenge her. “I’ll tell you exactly what kind of man does that”, Warren said. “I know that feeling well”.

Sanders also said he and his supporters would work to prevent presumptive Republican candidate Donald Trump from winning the presidential election.

It’s an argument Clinton and her aides believe will appeal not only to Democrats, but independent voters and even some Republicans anxious about how Trump would manage the nation’s economy and foreign affairs. She cited Trump’s attacks on a federal judge, born in IN of Mexican heritage, immigrants, a reporter with disabilities, women, Muslims, and the press, saying, “It goes against everything we stand for”. I said that when I was in coal country.

Supporters for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a rally in NY.

But after she won the Pennsylvania primary on April 26, Clinton said, “Wow, with your help, we’re going to come back to Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention with the most votes and the most pledged delegates and we will unify our party to win this election and build an America where we can all rise together”.

President Obama called both Clinton and Sanders late Tuesday.

To that end the senator was to travel to Washington on Thursday to meet with President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and speak at a rally.

Her best move now to win over progressive voters who backed Sanders would be showing she will stand behind those positions.

Although Wasserman-Schultz pushed for a “fair, open and inclusive process”, but that didn’t stop Rep. Luis Gutiérrez - a Clinton campaign pick for the committee - from taking a jab at the chairwoman. “Justice and equality can win”, she said. “We’re on the phone right now”. Trump dominated, with vote shares ranging from 67 percent to 77 percent, vanquishing opponents who had suspended their campaigns weeks ago. But the real estate mogul has continued to make controversial statements, frustrating party leaders. Mark Kirk of IL, perhaps the most vulnerable incumbent on the ballot this fall, and Sen. “But I’m going to support them”, Clinton said.

Hillary Clinton was looking ahead Wednesday to a general election showdown against Donald Trump, hours after making history by clinching the Democratic Party nomination.

Trump himself may have felt constrained, at least in relative terms, by the extraordinary fallout from his criticism of a federal judge handling a fraud case against the now-defunct Trump University.

Sanders’ achievements have been remarkable for a candidate who was unknown to most Americans before the campaign. The Vermont senator has been particularly popular with young voters, an important piece of the Democratic coalition.

Clinton cruised to easy victories in four of the six state contests Tuesday.

Her biggest hurdle: the sizeable share of Bernie’s fans who view the former first lady, senator and secretary of state as calculating and insincere - echoing the favorite line of attack of her Republican rival Trump.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll in May found Sanders supporters have become increasingly resistant to Clinton in the past few months, with less than half saying they will vote for her if she becomes the party’s nominee. Trump noted he and Sanders both oppose the president’s Pacific Rim trade deal, and he sympathized with frustration for having “been left out in the cold by a rigged system of super delegates”.