US Election: Clinton frames her historic win as a victory for women's rights
Hillary Clinton BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Hillary Clinton cemented her status as the first woman to become presumptive presidential nominee of a major American political party on Tuesday night, when the Associated Press projected her winner in New Jersey’s Democratic primary. Clinton’s victory in the Garden State ensures she will have more pledged delegates, unbound superdelegates and overall voters than her rival Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. She declared victory at a New York City rally in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. “Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone: the first time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party’s nominee,” Clinton told her supporters. “Tonight’s victory is not about one person. It belongs to generations of women and men who struggled and sacrificed and made this moment possible.” The former first lady, senator and secretary of state technically earned her status on Monday, after the AP and multiple other media outlets projected that she