Clinton Clinches Nomination

Hillary Clinton has secured enough delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination, emerging from a long and bruising primary to become the first woman to lead a major party in the race for the White House. With that milestone, the former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state has ended more than two centuries of national history in which only men have been the standard-bearers for the major political parties. She also overcame her own crushing loss in the 2008 Democratic primary against Barack Obama, as well as a political environment this year that favored outsiders at the expense of Clinton’s establishment credentials. And she became the first spouse of a former president to win the presidential nomination in her own right.