WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton has secured the 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president according to a count kept by the Associated Press.
The AP announced Clinton had hit the magic number on Monday night, one day before California and five other states hold primaries.
It's a historic moment for Clinton, who will become the first woman to be the presidential nominee of a major political party.
She would secure the nomination eight years after falling to Barack Obama in the 2008 primary. In fact, the AP announcement came nearly eight years to the day she bowed out of the 2008 race, later saying she had left "18 million cracks" in the nation's highest glass ceiling.
“According to the news, we are on the brink of a historic, historic, unprecedented moment, but we still have work to do,” Clinton said at the start of a Monday rally in Long Beach, Calif., shortly after the AP made the call.
Clinton is in the midst of a tough primary against Bernie Sanders, who has yet to give up the race despite tralling Clinton by a wide margin in total votes, pledged delegates and superdelegates — the party officials who have their own votes in the nominating contests.
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