Washington – Hillary Clinton will be the first woman to top the presidential ticket of a major U.S. political party, having captured commitments from the number of delegates needed to become the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee.
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It was a victory that arrived Monday — nearly eight years to the day after she conceded her first White House campaign to Barack Obama and famously noted her inability to “shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling.”
Campaigning this time as the loyal successor to the nation’s first black president, Clinton held off a surprisingly strong challenge from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to break through.
Clinton reached the 2,383 delegates needed to become the presumptive nominee with a decisive victory in Puerto Rico and a burst of last-minute support from party insiders known as superdelegates.
She will be worse than obama for Israel. It was her State Department that said that the Jews cannot build in Yehuda and Shomron. Not obama. Not the arabs. She did it by herself.
If the world a safer place after her tenure?
Trump is crazy. Hillary is a liar. Nice choice. I will go with the one who will do less long term damage to the country. I go with crazy.
May she be handed a landslide loss in November. There are few who rival her dishonesty, even in politics. She should encounter disgrace wherever she goes, after having been such a gross disappointment to our people.