DHAKA: Hillary Clinton has clinched the Democratic Party nomination for US President after reaching the required number of delegates.

Quoting a report of news agency AP, BBC reports the matter.

Clinton acquired over 2,383 delegates the number needed to make her the presumptive nominee. She got support of 2,384 delegates, including 1,812 pledged delegates and 572 superdelegates.

After a long 227 years, she has become the first female nominee for a major US political party for the White House.

Meanwhile, rival Bernie Sanders, who has 1,520 pledged and 46 superdelegates, said Clinton had not won as she was dependent on superdelegates who could not vote until July’s party convention.

Sanders has long protested that the superdelegate system fails to reflect the will of the voters. He has argued that superdelegates can switch their votes at any time before the Democratic National Convention in July.

In a statement on Tuesday night (local time), Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs reiterated that message, blaming the media’s “rush to judgment” for the decision.

“Secretary Clinton does not have and will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to secure the nomination. She will be dependent on superdelegates who do not vote until July 25 and who can change their minds between now and then,” he wrote, reports NBC News.

“Our job from now until the convention is to convince those superdelegates that Bernie is by far the strongest candidate against Donald Trump,” he added.

BDST: 0903 HRS, JUN 07, 2016
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