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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Striding into history, Hillary Clinton will become the first woman to top the presidential ticket of a major U.S. political party, capturing commitments Monday from the number of delegates needed to become the Democrats' presumptive nominee. 
  
 The victory arrived nearly eight years to the day after she conceded her first White House campaign to Barack Obama. Back then, she 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. He mobilized millions with a fervently liberal message and his insurgent candidacy revealed a deep level of national frustration with politics-as-usual, even among Democrats who have controlled the White House since 2009. 
  
 Clinton, the former secretary of state, New York senator and first lady, reached the 2,383 delegates needed to become the presumptive Democratic nominee on Monday with a decisive weekend victory in Puerto Rico and a burst of last-minute support from superdelegates. Those are party officials and officeholders, many of them eager to wrap up the primary amid preference polls showing her in a tightening race with presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. 
  
 Clinton has 1,812 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses. She also has the support of 571 superdelegates, according to an Associated Press count. 
  
 The AP surveyed all 714 superdelegates repeatedly in the past seven months, and only 95 remain publicly uncommitted. 
  
 While superdelegates will not formally cast their votes for Clinton until the party's July convention in Philadelphia, all those counted in her tally have unequivocally told the AP they will do so. 
  
 "We really need to bring a close to this primary process and get on to defeating Donald Trump," said Nancy Worley, a superdelegate who chairs Alabama's Democratic Party and provided one of the last endorsements to put Clinton over the top. 
  
 Clinton outpaced Sanders in winning new superdelegate endorsements even after his string of primary and caucus wins in May. Following the results in Puerto Rico, it is no longer possible for Sanders to reach the 2,383 needed to win the nomination based on the remaining available pledged delegates and uncommitted superdelegates. 
  
 Sanders said this past weekend he plans to fight on until the convention, promising to make the case to superdelegates that he is better positioned to beat Trump in November. Superdelegates can change their minds. But since the start of the AP's survey in late 2015, no superdelegates have switched from supporting Clinton to backing Sanders. 
  
 Indeed, Clinton's victory is broadly decisive. She leads Sanders by more than 3 million cast votes, by 291 pledged delegates and by 523 superdelegates. She won 29 caucuses and primaries to his 21 victories. 
  
 That's a far bigger margin than Obama had in 2008, when he led Clinton by 131 pledged delegates and 105 superdelegates at the point he clinched the nomination. 
  
 Echoing the sentiments of California Gov. Jerry Brown, who overcame a decades-long rivalry with the Clinton family to endorse her last week, many superdelegates expressed a desire to close ranks around a nominee who could defeat Trump in November. 
  
 "It's time to stand behind our presumptive candidate," said Michael Brown, one of two superdelegates from the District of Columbia who came forward in the past week to back Clinton before the city's June 14 primary. "We shouldn't be acting like we are undecided when the people of America have spoken." 
  
 Though she marched into her second presidential primary campaign as an overwhelming favorite, Clinton could not shake Sanders until its final days. He campaigned aggressively in California ahead of the state's Tuesday election, unwilling to exit a race Clinton stood on the cusp of winning. 
  
 Beyond winning over millions of Sanders supporters who vow to remain loyal to the self-described democratic socialist, Clinton faces challenges as she turns toward November, including criticism of her decision to use a private email server run from her New York home while serving as secretary of state. Her deep unpopularity among Republicans has pushed many leery of Trump to nevertheless embrace his campaign. 
  
 "This to me is about saving the country and preventing a third progressive, liberal term, which is what a Clinton presidency would do," House Speaker Paul Ryan told the AP last week after he finally endorsed Trump, weeks after the New Yorker clinched the GOP nomination. 
  
 Yet Clinton showed no signs of limping into the general election as she approached the milestone, leaving Sanders behind and focusing on lacerating Trump. She said electing the billionaire businessman, who has spent months hitting her and her husband with bitingly personal attacks, would be a "historic mistake." 
  
 "He is not just unprepared. He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and immense responsibility," Clinton said last week in a speech that was striking in its forcefulness, previewing a brutal five-month general election campaign to come. 
  
 Even without the nomination, Sanders can claim ideological victory. His liberal positions pushed the issue of income inequality into the spotlight and drove Clinton to the left on issues such as trade, Wall Street and campaign finance reform. 
  
 But she prevailed, in part, by claiming much of the coalition that boosted Obama. She won overwhelming support from women and minorities, catapulting her to decisive victories in diverse, delegate-rich states such as New York and Texas. 
  
 When Clinton launched her campaign last April, she did so largely unopposed, having scared off more formidable challengers by locking down much of the party's organizational and fundraising infrastructure. Vice President Joe Biden, seen as her most threatening rival, opted not to run in October. 
  
 Of the four opponents who did take her on, Sanders was the only one who emerged to provide a serious challenge. He caught fire among young voters and independents, his campaign gaining momentum from a narrow loss in Iowa in February and a commanding victory in New Hampshire. His ability to raise vast sums of money online gave him the resources to continue into the spring. 
  
 But Clinton vowed not to repeat the failings of her 2008 campaign and focused early on winning delegates, hiring help from Obama's old team before launching her campaign. They pushed superdelegates into making early commitments and held campaign appearances in areas where they could win the most pledged delegates. 
  
 Her victory in Nevada in late February diminished concerns from allies about her campaign operation. Decisive wins in Southern states on Super Tuesday and a sweep of March 15 contests gave her a significant delegate lead, which became insurmountable by the end of April after big victories in New York and in the Northeast. 
  
 She now moves on to face Trump, whose ascent to the top of the Republican Party few expected. The brash real estate mogul and reality TV star has long since turned his attention from primary foes to Clinton, debuting a nickname — "Crooked Hillary" — and arguing she belongs in jail for her email setup. 
  
 After a long primary campaign, Clinton said this past weekend in California she was ready to accept his challenge. 
  
 "We're judged by our words and our deeds, not our race, not our ethnicity, not our religion," she said Saturday in Oxnard, California. "So it is time to judge Donald Trump by his words and his deeds. And I believe that his words and his deeds disqualify him from being president of the United States." 
  
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 Associated Press writers Julie Bykowicz in Washington and Ken Thomas in San Francisco contributed to this report. ||||| LONG BEACH, Calif. — Hillary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee in a surprise development on Monday, making her the first woman ever to win a major party’s presidential nomination one day before she was expected to cross the threshold. 
  
 The historic moment, years in the making, came after the former secretary of state passed the mark with a combination of pledged and superdelegates in her contest against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. 
  
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 But the announcement — first made by The Associated Press, and quickly confirmed by NBC and ABC — had not been expected until Tuesday night, when results from six states, including California and New Jersey, come in. Clinton's campaign had prepared a major victory rally in Brooklyn for Tuesday night, exactly eight years to the day after she conceded the 2008 race to then-Sen. Barack Obama. 
  
 Clinton’s embrace of the history-making occasion was uneasy. At one moment, her campaign was sending a fundraising text to supporters passing along the AP’s call. At another, she was tweeting about the coming primaries on Tuesday. 
  
 At her rally here on Monday night, Clinton alluded only briefly to the AP’s proclamation. 
  
 "According to the news, we are on the brink of a historic, unprecedented moment, but we still have work to do," she said. "We have six elections tomorrow and we are going to fight hard for every single vote, especially right here in California." 
  
 Later, during her brief remarks at her star-studded concert fundraiser at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre to end the evening, Clinton didn't even mention that the race had already been called, encouraging attendees to vote in California. Still, that didn't stop a host of celebrity speakers from alluding to the news but stressing the importance of competing through Tuesday. 
  
 Clinton’s victory sets up a titanic clash against presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, who ripped through 16 primary rivals on his way to becoming the unlikely leader of a party he joined only recently. 
  
 But Sanders, long suspicious of superdelegates' role in the process, refused to concede on Monday night. His communications director, Michael Briggs, decried the media's "rush to judgment," signaling Sanders' intention to fight on. 
  
 “It is unfortunate that the media, in a rush to judgment, are ignoring the Democratic National Committee’s clear statement that it is wrong to count the votes of superdelegates before they actually vote at the convention this summer," Briggs said in a statement noting that Clinton “does not have and will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to secure the nomination.” 
  
 It was indeed superdelegates who put Clinton over the top — the AP spent the day surveying these party insiders and counted those who said they were "unequivocally" for Clinton, according to the news agency's U.S. political editor, David Scott. 
  
 Delegates Remaining: 56 Delegates 2,814 1,893 56 2,382 Delegates Needed for Nomination 
  
 The timing was a surprise, coming only hours before voters head to the polls on the last major day of the Democratic primary, even if the outcome was not. And the Clinton campaign, mindful of the need to court Sanders supporters deeply suspicious of the process, signaled it understood the need to let the voters have their say. 
  
 “Hillary Clinton is working to earn every vote," campaign manager Robby Mook said in a statement. "We look forward to Tuesday night, when Hillary Clinton will clinch not only a win in the popular vote, but also the majority of pledged delegates." 
  
 Before the AP updated its count and put her over the top, Clinton was just 23 delegates shy of the 2,383 needed to clinch the nomination, and with hundreds of delegates up for grabs on Tuesday, she was expected to easily cross that threshold. 
  
 But given Clinton’s reliance on superdelegates to reach a majority, Sanders has vowed to wage a bitter battle all the way to the Democratic National Convention in July, insisting that nothing is official until the ballots are tallied in Philadelphia and arguing that he would make a better opponent to face Trump. 
  
 So far, Clinton has trod lightly, wary of alienating progressives she needs for the coming general election battle. 
  
 “I certainly am going to be reaching out to Sen. Sanders and hope he will join me in that, because we've got to be unified going into the convention and coming out of the convention to take on Donald Trump,” Clinton told reporters on Monday. 
  
 Clinton has been eager to take on Trump — stepping up her attacks on his "racist" rhetoric and unfitness for the Oval Office — but earlier on Monday she found time to reflect on the historic nature of her victory. 
  
 "My supporters are passionate. They are committed. They have voted for me in great numbers across our country for many reasons. But among those reasons is their belief that having a woman president will make a great statement, a historic statement about what kind of country we are, what we stand for. It's really emotional. And I am someone who has been very touched and really encouraged by this extraordinary conviction that people have," she said. "It's predominantly women and girls, but not exclusively — men bring their daughters to meet me and tell me that they are supporting me because of their daughters. And I do think that it will make a very big difference for a father or a mother to be able to look at their daughter just like they can look at their son and say, 'You can be anything you want to be in this country, including president of the United States.'" 
  
 Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, have been at pains to show that they are taking nothing for granted — campaigning hard in California in recent weeks, looking to win the primary in the biggest state in the country as a capstone to her long march to the nomination. 
  
 But embedded in her comments in recent days is a clear message to Sanders: Your time is up. 
  
 Sanders has shocked the political world, and seemingly himself, by creating not only a progressive movement but also a fundraising powerhouse that will have helped him win more than 20 states, when all’s said and done. 
  
 It’s a stunning success for a democratic socialist from Vermont who only recently embraced the Democratic Party and has spent decades on Capitol Hill with few marquee legislative successes to his name. 
  
 But Sanders' frustration has been visible as Clinton barreled toward victory. 
  
 He bristled when asked by reporters on Monday whether he was "standing in the way of what could be the first female president," and, "At what point do you become a spoiler, though?" 
  
 Sanders brushed off the questions, pointing to polls that show him faring better than Clinton in head-to-head matchups against Trump. 
  
 "Our goal is to get as many delegates as we possibly can and to make the case to superdelegates that I believe the evidence is very strong that I am the strongest candidate," Sanders said at a news conference in Emeryville, California. 
  
 But he also hinted that he’s coming closer to accepting that the math just doesn’t work in his favor. 
  
 Sanders told reporters that he'll be headed on a plane back to Burlington on Tuesday night and that he and his aides will "assess where we are" after the election results come in. 
  
 As of Monday evening, Sanders faced a near-impossible task to overtake Clinton among pledged delegates. He would have needed to win roughly two-thirds of the pledged delegates between Tuesday’s contests and next week’s primary in the District of Columbia — a massive jump from the roughly 46 percent of pledged delegates he’s won thus far — to pass Clinton. 
  
 There are also clear signs that patience with Sanders has run out. 
  
 Reports leaked out on Monday that President Barack Obama spoke with Sanders on Sunday, and that Obama was ready to endorse Clinton as early as this week. 
  
 And Clinton herself on Monday said in not so subtle terms that she’s ready for the next phase in the campaign — one in which she takes the fight to Trump, with her 2008 primary rival by her side. 
  
 "I look forward to campaigning with the president and everyone else," she said. 
  
 Hadas Gold and Shane Goldmacher contributed to this report. |||||
– By AP's count, Hillary Clinton has just made US history: On Monday, the news service declared that she has captured commitments from the number of delegates needed to become the Democrats' presumptive nominee, the first woman to do so for either party. The Sanders camp, however, isn't convinced. The AP says Clinton reached the mark 2,383 delegates with a decisive weekend victory in Puerto Rico and a burst of last-minute support from superdelegates. Those are party officials and officeholders, many of them eager to wrap up the primary amid preference polls showing her in a tightening race with presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. Clinton has 1,812 pledged delegates won in primaries and caucuses. She also has the support of 571 superdelegates, according to an Associated Press count. The AP surveyed all 714 superdelegates repeatedly in the past seven months, and only 95 remain publicly uncommitted. While superdelegates will not formally cast their votes for Clinton until the party's July convention in Philadelphia, all those counted in her tally have unequivocally told the AP they will do so. A spokesman for Bernie Sanders isn't swayed by the math, reports Politico. “Secretary Clinton does not have and will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to secure the nomination," said Michael Briggs. "She will be dependent on superdelegates who do not vote until July 25 and who can change their minds between now and then." The development comes on the eve of voting in California.
Skriv en sammanfattning baserad på denna artikel: LOS ANGELES (AP) — Att glida in i historien, Hillary Clinton kommer att bli den första kvinnan att toppa presidentbiljetten för ett stort amerikanskt politiskt parti, fånga åtaganden måndag från det antal delegater som behövs för att bli demokraternas presumtiva kandidat. Segern kom nästan åtta år till dagen efter att hon medgav sin första Vita huset-kampanj till Barack Obama. På den tiden noterade hon på ett berömt sätt sin oförmåga att "skaka det högsta, hårdaste glastaket". Den här gången som lojal efterträdare till landets första svarta president avhöll Clinton en överraskande stark utmaning från Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Han mobiliserade miljoner med ett innerligt liberalt budskap och hans upprorskandidatur avslöjade en djup nationell frustration med politik som vanligt, även bland demokrater som har kontrollerat Vita huset sedan 2009. Clinton, den tidigare utrikesministern, New Yorks senator och första dam, nådde de 2 383 delegater som behövde bli den presumtiva demokraternas nominerade på måndagen med en avgörande helgseger i Puerto Rico och ett utbrott av sista minuten stöd från superdelegater. De är partitjänstemän och kontorsinnehavare, många av dem är ivriga att avsluta de primära amid preferensundersökningar visar henne i en åtstramning ras med presumtiva GOP nominerade Donald Trump. Clinton har 1 812 utlovade delegater som vunnit i primärval och kaukasus. Hon har även stöd av 571 superdelegater, enligt en Associerad Pressräkning. AP granskade alla 714 superdelegater upprepade gånger under de senaste sju månaderna, och endast 95 förblir offentligt oengagerade. Medan superdelegater formellt inte kommer att avlägga sina röster för Clinton förrän partiets julikonvent i Philadelphia, har alla som räknas i hennes räkning entydigt sagt till AP att de kommer att göra det. "Vi måste verkligen komma nära denna primära process och komma vidare med att besegra Donald Trump," sade Nancy Worley, en superdelegat som är ordförande för Alabamas demokratiska parti och tillhandahöll ett av de sista stöden för att sätta Clinton över toppen. Clinton överträffade Sanders i att vinna nya superdelegate-påslag även efter hans sträng av primär- och caucusvinster i maj. Efter resultaten i Puerto Rico, är det inte längre möjligt för Sanders att nå den 2 383 som behövs för att vinna nomineringen baserat på de återstående tillgängliga utlovade delegaterna och obundna superdelegater. Sanders sade denna gång helgen han planerar att slåss på tills konventet, lovar att göra fallet till superdelegater att han är bättre positionerad att slå Trump i november. Superdelegater kan ändra sig. Men sedan starten av AP:s undersökning i slutet av 2015 har inga superdelegater övergått från att stödja Clinton till att stödja Sanders. Clintons seger är faktiskt i stort sett avgörande. Hon leder Sanders med mer än 3 miljoner avgivna röster, av 291 utlovade delegater och av 523 superdelegater. Hon vann 29 caucuses och primaries till hans 21 segrar. Det är en betydligt större marginal än Obama hade 2008, när han ledde Clinton av 131 utlovade delegater och 105 superdelegater vid den punkt han knöt nomineringen. Jag följer känslorna från California Gov. Jerry Brown, som övervann en decennier lång rivalitet med familjen Clinton för att stödja henne förra veckan, uttryckte många superdelegater en önskan att sluta led kring en nominerad som kunde besegra Trump i november. "Det är dags att ställa sig bakom vår presumtiva kandidat", sade Michael Brown, en av två superdelegater från District of Columbia som kom fram under den senaste veckan för att backa Clinton före stadens 14 juni primär. "Vi borde inte bete oss som om vi är obeslutsamma när Amerikas folk har talat." Även om hon marscherade in i sin andra presidentkampanj som en överväldigande favorit, kunde Clinton inte skaka Sanders förrän dess sista dagar. Han kampanjade aggressivt i Kalifornien inför delstatens tisdagsval, ovillig att lämna ett lopp Clinton stod på väg att vinna. Utöver att vinna över miljontals Sanders-anhängare som lovar att förbli lojala mot den självbeskrivna demokratiska socialisten står Clinton inför utmaningar när hon vänder sig mot november, bland annat kritik mot hennes beslut att använda en privat e-postserver som körs från hennes New York-hem samtidigt som hon tjänar som utrikesminister. Hennes djupa impopularitet bland republikaner har drivit många löje av Trump att ändå omfamna hans kampanj. "Detta för mig handlar om att rädda landet och förhindra en tredje progressiv, liberal term, vilket är vad en Clinton president skulle göra," House Speaker Paul Ryan berättade AP förra veckan efter att han slutligen stödde Trump, veckor efter New Yorker klyftade GOP nominering. Ändå visade Clinton inga tecken på att halta in i det allmänna valet när hon närmade sig milstolpen, och lämnade Sanders bakom sig och fokuserade på att skära sönder Trump. Att välja miljardären affärsman, som i månader har slagit henne och hennes man med bitande personliga attacker, skulle vara ett "historiskt misstag". "Han är inte bara oförberedd. Han är temperamentsfullt olämplig att inneha ett ämbete som kräver kunskap, stabilitet och enormt ansvar", sade Clinton förra veckan i ett tal som var slående i sin kraft, förhandsgranska en brutal fem månaders allmänna valkampanj som kommer. Även utan nomineringen kan Sanders göra anspråk på ideologisk seger. Hans liberala ståndpunkter drev frågan om inkomstskillnader in i rampljuset och drev Clinton till vänster i frågor som handel, Wall Street och kampanjfinansieringsreformen. Men hon segrade delvis genom att hävda mycket av den koalition som boostade Obama. Hon vann överväldigande stöd från kvinnor och minoriteter, vilket katapulerade henne till avgörande segrar i olika, delegatrika stater som New York och Texas. När Clinton lanserade sin kampanj i april förra året gjorde hon det i stort sett utan motstånd, efter att ha skrämt bort mer formidabla utmanare genom att låsa in mycket av partiets organisatoriska och insamlingsinfrastruktur. Vicepresident Joe Biden, sedd som sin mest hotande rival, valde att inte ställa upp i oktober. Av de fyra motståndarna som tog sig an henne var Sanders den ende som kom fram för att ge en allvarlig utmaning. Han fattade eld bland unga väljare och oberoende, hans kampanj fick fart från en smal förlust i Iowa i februari och en befallande seger i New Hampshire. Hans förmåga att samla in enorma summor pengar på nätet gav honom resurser att fortsätta till våren. Men Clinton svor att inte upprepa misslyckandena i hennes kampanj 2008 och fokuserade tidigt på att vinna delegater, anställa hjälp från Obamas gamla lag innan hon inledde sin kampanj. De tvingade superdelegater att göra tidiga åtaganden och höll kampanjframträdanden i områden där de kunde vinna de mest utlovade delegaterna. Hennes seger i Nevada i slutet av februari minskade oron från allierade över hennes kampanjoperation. Avgörande segrar i sydstaterna på Supertisdagen och en svepning av 15 mars deltävlingar gav henne en betydande delegatledning, som blev oöverstiglig i slutet av april efter stora segrar i New York och i nordost. Hon går nu vidare till att möta Trump, vars uppstigning till toppen av det republikanska partiet få förväntade sig. Den brash fastigheter mogul och reality TV stjärna har för länge sedan vände sin uppmärksamhet från primära fiender till Clinton, debuterar ett smeknamn — "Crooked Hillary" — och argumenterar hon hör hemma i fängelset för sin e-postuppställning. Efter en lång primärkampanj sade Clinton att hon under helgen i Kalifornien var redo att anta hans utmaning. "Vi döms efter våra ord och handlingar, inte vår ras, inte vår etnicitet, inte vår religion", sade hon lördag i Oxnard, Kalifornien. "Så det är dags att döma Donald Trump efter hans ord och hans gärningar. Och jag tror att hans ord och gärningar diskvalificerar honom från att vara USA:s president." ___ Associerade pressskribenter Julie Bykowicz i Washington och Ken Thomas i San Francisco bidrog till denna rapport. LÅNG BEACH, Calif. — Hillary Clinton blev den presumtiva demokratiska kandidaten i en överraskande utveckling på måndagen, vilket gjorde henne till den första kvinnan någonsin att vinna ett stort partis presidentval en dag innan hon förväntades gå över tröskeln. Det historiska ögonblicket, flera år i tiden, kom efter det att den tidigare utrikesministern passerade märket med en kombination av utlovade och superdelegater i sin tävling mot Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Story fortsatte nedan Men tillkännagivandet — först gjord av The Associated Press, och snabbt bekräftas av NBC och ABC — hade inte förväntats förrän tisdag kväll, då resultat från sex stater, inklusive Kalifornien och New Jersey, kommer in. Clintons kampanj hade förberett en stor seger rally i Brooklyn för tisdag kväll, exakt åtta år till dagen efter att hon medgav 2008 loppet till dåvarande-Sen. Barack Obama. Clintons omfamning av det historieskapande tillfället var orolig. Vid ett tillfälle skickade hennes kampanj en insamlingstext till supportrar som vidarebefordrade AP:s kallelse. Vid ett annat twittrade hon om de kommande primärvalen i tisdags. Vid sitt möte här på måndag kväll anspelade Clinton endast kort på AP:s proklamation. "Enligt nyheterna står vi på randen till ett historiskt, oöverträffat ögonblick, men vi har fortfarande arbete att göra", sade hon. "Vi har sex val i morgon och vi kommer att kämpa hårt för varje enskild omröstning, särskilt här i Kalifornien." Senare, under hennes korta kommentarer vid hennes stjärnstuderade konsertinsamling på Los Angeles grekiska teater för att avsluta kvällen, nämnde Clinton inte ens att loppet redan hade kallats, vilket uppmuntrade deltagarna att rösta i Kalifornien. Men det hindrade inte en massa kändistalare från att anspela på nyheterna men betonade vikten av att tävla till och med tisdag. Clintons seger sätter upp en titanisk sammandrabbning mot den presumtive republikanske nominerade Donald Trump, som slet igenom 16 primära rivaler på väg att bli den osannolika ledaren för ett parti som han anslöt sig till först nyligen. Men Sanders, länge misstänksam mot superdelegaters roll i processen, vägrade att ge med sig på måndag kväll. Hans kommunikationschef, Michael Briggs, fördömde medias "spurt to dome", vilket signalerade Sanders avsikt att slåss vidare. “Det är olyckligt att medierna, i en snabb dom, ignorerar Demokratiska Nationalkommittén tydliga uttalande att det är fel att räkna rösterna av superdelegater innan de faktiskt rösta på konventet i sommar,” Briggs sade i ett uttalande som konstaterar att Clinton “inte har och inte kommer att ha det nödvändiga antalet utlovade delegater att säkra nomineringen.” Det var verkligen superdelegater som satte Clinton över toppen — AP tillbringade dagen med att undersöka dessa parti insiders och räknade dem som sade att de var "envis" för Clinton, enligt nyhetsbyråns amerikanska politiska redaktör, David Scott. Delegater Återstår: 56 Delegater 2,814 1,893 56 2,382 Delegater som behövs för nominering Tidpunkten var en överraskning, kommer bara timmar innan väljarna går till valurnorna på den sista stora dagen av demokraternas primärval, även om resultatet inte var det. Och Clinton-kampanjen, medveten om behovet av att uppvakta Sanders anhängare djupt misstänksamma mot processen, signalerade att den förstod behovet av att låta väljarna få säga sitt. — Hillary Clinton arbetar för att förtjäna varje röst, sade kampanjchefen Robby Mook i ett uttalande. "Vi ser fram emot tisdag kväll, då Hillary Clinton inte bara kommer att vinna i folkomröstningen, utan även majoriteten av utlovade delegater." Innan AP uppdaterade sin räkning och satte henne över toppen, var Clinton bara 23 delegater blyga för de 2.383 som behövdes för att få till stånd nomineringen, och med hundratals delegater upp för tag på tisdag, förväntades hon lätt gå över den tröskeln. Men med tanke på Clintons beroende av superdelegater för att nå en majoritet, har Sanders lovat att föra en bitter kamp ända till Demokratiska nationalkonventet i juli, insistera på att ingenting är officiellt förrän valsedlarna stämmer i Philadelphia och argumenterar för att han skulle göra en bättre motståndare att möta Trump. Hittills har Clinton varit försiktig med att fjärma sig från de framsteg hon behöver inför den kommande allmänna valstriden. “Jag kommer verkligen att nå ut till Sen. Sanders och hoppas att han kommer att ansluta sig till mig i det, eftersom vi måste vara enade gå in i konventet och komma ut ur konventet för att ta på Donald Trump,” Clinton berättade reportrar på måndag. Clinton har varit ivrig att ta sig an Trump — intensifiera sina attacker mot hans "rasistiska" retorik och olämplighet för Ovala kontoret — men tidigare i måndags fick hon tid att reflektera över den historiska karaktären av sin seger. "Mina anhängare är passionerade. De är engagerade. De har röstat på mig i stort antal över hela vårt land av många skäl. Men bland dessa skäl är deras tro att en kvinnlig president kommer att göra ett stort uttalande, ett historiskt uttalande om vilket slags land vi är, vad vi står för. Det är verkligen känslosamt. Och jag är någon som har blivit mycket rörd och verkligen uppmuntrad av denna utomordentliga övertygelse som människor har," sade hon. "Det är övervägande kvinnor och flickor, men inte uteslutande — män tar med sina döttrar för att möta mig och säger att de stöttar mig på grund av sina döttrar. Och jag tror att det kommer att göra stor skillnad för en far eller mor att kunna se på sin dotter precis som de kan se på sin son och säga: "Du kan bli vad du vill i det här landet, inklusive USA:s president." Clinton och hennes man, före detta president Bill Clinton, har ansträngt sig för att visa att de inte tar någonting för givet — att de har kämpat hårt i Kalifornien under de senaste veckorna för att vinna primärvalet i landets största delstat som en kapsten till hennes långa marsch mot nomineringen. Men inbäddad i hennes kommentarer de senaste dagarna är ett tydligt budskap till Sanders: Din tid är slut. Sanders har chockat den politiska världen, och till synes själv, genom att skapa inte bara en progressiv rörelse utan också ett insamlingskrafthus som kommer att ha hjälpt honom att vinna mer än 20 stater, när allt är sagt och gjort. Det är en fantastisk framgång för en demokratisk socialist från Vermont som först nyligen omfamnade det demokratiska partiet och har tillbringat årtionden på Capitol Hill med få marketiska lagstiftningsframgångar till sitt namn. Men Sanders frustration har varit synlig när Clinton tunnlade mot seger. Han brisade på frågan av reportrar i måndags om han "stod i vägen för vad som kunde vara den första kvinnliga presidenten", och, "Vid vilken tidpunkt blir du en spoiler, dock?" Sanders borstade bort frågorna, pekar på opinionsundersökningar som visar att han klarar sig bättre än Clinton i head-to-head matchups mot Trump. "Vårt mål är att få så många delegater som möjligt och att göra fallet till superdelegater att jag tror att bevisen är mycket starka att jag är den starkaste kandidaten," sade Sanders på en nyhetskonferens i Emeryville, Kalifornien. Men han antydde också att han kommer närmare att acceptera att matematiken helt enkelt inte fungerar till hans fördel. Sanders sa till reportrar att han ska flyga tillbaka till Burlington på tisdag kväll och att han och hans medhjälpare kommer att "bedöma var vi är" efter att valresultatet kommit in. Från och med måndagskvällen stod Sanders inför en nästan omöjlig uppgift att hinna om Clinton bland utlovade delegater. Han skulle ha behövt vinna ungefär två tredjedelar av de utlovade delegaterna mellan tisdagens tävlingar och nästa veckas primärval i District of Columbia — ett massivt hopp från de ungefär 46 procent av utlovade delegater han vunnit hittills — att passera Clinton. Det finns också tydliga tecken på att tålamodet med Sanders har tagit slut. Rapporter läckte ut i måndags att president Barack Obama talade med Sanders på söndagen, och att Obama var redo att stödja Clinton redan denna vecka. Och Clinton själv på måndag sade i inte så subtila termer att hon är redo för nästa fas i kampanjen - en där hon tar kampen till Trump, med hennes 2008 primära rival vid hennes sida. "Jag ser fram emot att driva en kampanj med presidenten och alla andra", sade hon. Hadas Gold och Shane Goldmacher bidrog till denna rapport. Â°°
Write a summary based on this article: LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gliding into history, Hillary Clinton will be the first woman to top the presidential ticket for a major American political party, capturing commitments Monday from the number of delegates needed to become the Democratic presumptive candidate. The victory came nearly eight years to the day after she admitted her first White House campaign to Barack Obama. At the time, she famously noted her inability to "shake the highest, hardest glass ceiling". This time as a loyal successor to the country's first black president, Clinton held up a surprisingly strong challenge from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. He mobilized millions with a fervent liberal message and his insurgent candidacy revealed a deep national frustration with politics as usual, even among Democrats who have controlled the White House since 2009. Clinton, the former Secretary of State, New York Senator and First Lady, reached the 2,383 delegates who needed to become the presumptive Democratic nominee on Monday with a decisive weekend victory in Puerto Rico and an outbreak of last minute support from superdelegates. They are party officials and office holders, many of them are eager to finish the primary amid preference polls show her in a austerity race with presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. Clinton has 1,812 promised delegates who won in the primary and caucasus. She also has the support of 571 superdelegates, according to an Associated Press bill. The AP reviewed all 714 superdelegates repeatedly over the past seven months, and only 95 remain publicly uninvolved. While superdelegates will not formally cast their votes for Clinton until the party's July Convention in Philadelphia, all who count on her behalf have unequivocally told the AP that they will. "We really need to get close to this primary process and get on with defeating Donald Trump," said Nancy Worley, a super delegate who is the chairman of the Alabama Democratic Party and provided one of the last support to put Clinton above the top. Clinton surpassed Sanders in winning new superdelegate turns even after his string of primary and caucus wins in May. Following the results in Puerto Rico, it is no longer possible for Sanders to reach the 2,383 needed to win the nomination based on the remaining available promised delegates and unbound superdelegates. Sanders said this time the weekend he plans to fight on until the convention, promising to make the case superdelegates that he is better positioned to beat Trump in November. Superdelegates can change their minds. However, since the start of AP's survey in late 2015, no superdelegates have moved from supporting Clinton to supporting Sanders. Indeed, Clinton's victory is largely crucial. She leads Sanders with more than 3 million votes cast, out of 291 promised delegates and out of 523 superdelegates. She won 29 caucuses and primaries to his 21 victories. It is a far larger margin than Obama had in 2008, when he led Clinton out of 131 promised delegates and 105 superdelegates at the point he tied the nomination. I'm following the feelings of California Gov. Jerry Brown, who overcame a decades-long rivalry with the Clinton family to support her last week, expressed many superdelegates a desire to end suffering around a nominee who could defeat Trump in November. "It's time to back up our prospective candidate," said Michael Brown, one of two superdelegates from the District of Columbia who emerged in the past week to back Clinton ahead of the city's June 14 primary. "We shouldn't act like we're indecisive when the people of America have spoken." Although she marched into her second presidential campaign as an overwhelming favourite, Clinton could not shake Sanders until its final days. He campaigned aggressively in California for the state's Tuesday election, unwilling to leave a race Clinton was about to win. In addition to winning over millions of Sanders supporters who promise to remain loyal to the self-described Democratic Socialist, Clinton faces challenges as she turns against November, including criticism of her decision to use a private email server run from her New York home while serving as Secretary of State. Her deep unpopularity among Republicans has driven many ridicules of Trump to still embrace his campaign. "This for me is about saving the country and preventing a third progressive, liberal term, which is what a Clinton president would do," House Speaker Paul Ryan told AP last week after he finally supported Trump, weeks after the New Yorker gaped GOP nomination. Yet Clinton showed no signs of limping into the general election as she approached the milestone, leaving Sanders behind and focusing on cutting Trump apart. Choosing billionaire businessman, who for months has beaten her and her husband with biting personal attacks, would be a "historical mistake". "He's not just unprepared. He is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability and enormous responsibility," said Clinton last week in a speech that was striking in its power, previewing a brutal five-month general election campaign coming. Even without the nomination, Sanders can claim ideological victory. His liberal positions pushed the issue of income inequality into the spotlight and pushed Clinton to the left on issues such as trade, Wall Street and campaign finance reform. But she won in part by claiming much of the coalition that boosted Obama. She gained overwhelming support from women and minorities, catapulting her to decisive victories in various, delegate-rich states such as New York and Texas. When Clinton launched her campaign in April last year, she did so largely unopposed, having frightened away more formidable challengers by locking in much of the party's organizational and fundraising infrastructure. Vice President Joe Biden, seen as his most threatening rival, chose not to run in October. Of the four opponents who took on her, Sanders was the only one who came forward to give a serious challenge. He caught fire among young voters and independence, his campaign gained momentum from a narrow loss in Iowa in February and a commanding victory in New Hampshire. His ability to raise huge sums of money online gave him the resources to continue until spring. But Clinton vowed not to repeat the failures of her 2008 campaign and focused early on winning delegates, hiring help from Obama's old team before starting her campaign. They forced superdelegates to make early commitments and held campaign appearances in areas where they could win the most promised delegates. Her victory in Nevada in late February reduced concerns from allies over her campaign operation. Decisive victories in the Southern states on Super Tuesday and a sweep of March 15 contests gave her a significant delegate lead, which became insurmountable in late April after major victories in New York City and in the northeast. She now goes on to face Trump, whose ascent to the top of the Republican Party few expected. The Brash real estate mogul and reality TV star has long ago turned her attention from primary enemies of Clinton, debuting a nickname — "Crooked Hillary" — and arguing she belongs in prison for her email line-up. After a long primary campaign, Clinton said that over the weekend in California she was ready to face his challenge. "We are judged by our words and actions, not our race, not our ethnicity, not our religion," she said Saturday in Oxnard, California. "So it's time to judge Donald Trump by his words and his deeds. And I think his words and deeds disqualify him from being President of the United States." ___ Associated press writers Julie Bykowicz in Washington and Ken Thomas in San Francisco contributed to this report. LONG BEACH, Calif. — Hillary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic candidate in a surprising development on Monday, making her the first woman ever to win a major party presidential election one day before she was expected to cross the threshold. The historic moment, several years in time, came after the former foreign minister passed the mark with a combination of promised and superdelegates in his competition against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Story continued below But the announcement — first made by The Associated Press, and quickly confirmed by NBC and ABC — had not been expected until Tuesday night, when results from six states, including California and New Jersey, come in. Clinton's campaign had prepared a major victory rally in Brooklyn for Tuesday night, exactly eight years to the day after she admitted the 2008 race to then-Sen. Barack Obama. Clinton's embrace of the history-making occasion was troubled. At one point, her campaign sent a fundraising text to supporters who forwarded the AP's summons. At another, she tweeted about the upcoming primarys on Tuesday. At his meeting here on Monday night, Clinton only briefly alluded to the AP proclamation. "According to the news, we are on the brink of a historic, unprecedented moment, but we still have work to do," she said. "We have six elections tomorrow and we will fight hard for every single vote, especially here in California." Later, during her brief comments at her star-studded concert fundraiser at the Los Angeles Greek Theatre to end the evening, Clinton did not even mention that the race had already been called, encouraging participants to vote in California. But that did not stop a lot of celebrity celebrities from alluding to the news but emphasized the importance of competing through Tuesday. Clinton's victory sets up a titanic clash against the presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, who tore through 16 primary rivals about to become the unlikely leader of a party to which he only joined recently. But Sanders, long suspicious of the role of superdelegates in the process, refused to surrender on Monday night. His communications director, Michael Briggs, condemned the media's "sprint to dome", signaling Sander's intention to fight further. “It’s unfortunate that the media, in a quick verdict, ignores the Democratic National Committee’s clear statement that it’s wrong to count the votes of superdelegates before they actually vote for the convention this summer,” Briggs said in a statement stating that Clinton “has not and will not have the necessary number of promised delegates to secure the nomination.” It was really superdelegates who put Clinton above the top — AP spent the day investigating these party insiders and counted those who said they were “resistingly” for Clinton, according to the news agency’s American political editor, David Scott. Delegates Remaining: 56 Delegates 2,814,893 56 2,382 Delegates needed for nomination The timing was a surprise, coming just hours before voters go to the ballot boxes on the final major day of the Democratic primary election, although the result was not. And the Clinton campaign, aware of the need to court Sander's supporters deeply suspicious of the process, signalled that it understood the need to let voters have their say. — Hillary Clinton works to earn every vote, said campaign manager Robby Mook in a statement. "We look forward to Tuesday night, as Hillary Clinton will not only win in the referendum, but also the majority of promised delegates." Before the AP updated her bill and put her over the top, Clinton was only 23 delegates shy of the 2,383 needed to bring about the nomination, and with hundreds of delegates up for grabs on Tuesday, she was easily expected to cross that threshold. However, given Clinton's dependence on superdelegates to reach a majority, Sanders has promised to wage a bitter fight all the way to the Democratic National Convention in July, insisting that nothing is official until the ballots tally in Philadelphia and arguing that he would make a better opponent to face Trump. To date, Clinton has been careful to alienate herself from the progress she needs in the face of the upcoming general election battle. “I’m really going to reach out to Sen. Sanders and hope he will join me in it, because we need to be united go into the convention and come out of the convention to touch Donald Trump,” Clinton told reporters on Monday. Clinton has been eager to take on Trump — intensifying her attacks on his "racist" rhetoric and inappropriateness for the Oval Office — but earlier on Monday she had time to reflect on the historical character of her victory. "My followers are passionate. They're committed. They have voted for me in large numbers across our country for many reasons. But among these reasons is their belief that a female president will make a big statement, a historic statement about what kind of country we are, what we stand for. It's really emotional. And I'm someone who's been very moved and really encouraged by this extraordinary conviction that people have," she said. "It's predominantly women and girls, but not exclusively — men bring their daughters to meet me and say they support me because of their daughters. And I think it will make a big difference for a father or mother to be able to look at their daughter just as they can look at their son and say, "You can be anything you want in this country, including the President of the United States." Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have made an effort to show that they are taking nothing for granted — that they have fought hard in California over the past few weeks to win the primary in the country's largest state as a capstone to her long march toward the nomination. But embedded in her comments in recent days is a clear message to Sanders: Your time is up. Sanders has shocked the political world, and seemingly himself, by creating not only a progressive movement but also a fundraising power house that will have helped him win more than 20 states, when all is said and done. It is a fantastic success for a Vermont Democratic socialist who only recently embraced the Democratic Party and has spent decades on Capitol Hill with few marketable legislative successes to his name. But Sander's frustration has been visible when Clinton barreled toward victory. He brisked at the question of reporters on Monday if he " stood in the way of what might be the first female president," and, "At what point in time do you become a spoiler, though?" Sanders brushed off the issues, pointing to polls showing that he is doing better than Clinton in head-to-head matchups against Trump. "Our goal is to get as many delegates as possible and to make the case superdelegates that I think the evidence is very strong that I am the strongest candidate," said Sanders at a news conference in Emeryville, California. But he also indicated that he will come closer to accepting that mathematics simply does not work in his favor. Sanders told reporters that he is flying back to Burlington on Tuesday night and that he and his aide will "assess where we are" after the election results come in. As of Monday night, Sanders faced an almost impossible task to overtake Clinton among promised delegates. He would have had to win about two thirds of the promised delegates between Tuesday's competitions and next week's primary in the District of Columbia — a massive jump from the roughly 46 percent of promised delegates he won so far — to pass Clinton. There are also clear signs that patience with Sanders has run out. Reports leaked on Monday that President Barack Obama spoke to Sanders on Sunday, and that Obama was ready to support Clinton as early as this week. And Clinton herself on Monday said in not so subtle terms that she is ready for the next phase of the campaign - one where she takes the fight to Trump, with her 2008 primary rival by her side. "I look forward to running a campaign with the President and everyone else," she said. Hadas Gold and Shane Goldmacher contributed to this report. <unk>
– Av AP:s räkning har Hillary Clinton just skrivit USA:s historia: På måndag förklarade nyhetstjänsten att hon har fångat åtaganden från det antal delegater som behövs för att bli demokraternas presumtiva nominerade, den första kvinnan att göra det för något av partierna. Men lägret Sanders är inte övertygat. AP säger att Clinton nådde 2 383 delegater med en avgörande helgseger i Puerto Rico och ett utbrott av sista minuten-stöd från superdelegater. De är partitjänstemän och kontorsinnehavare, många av dem är ivriga att avsluta de primära amid preferensundersökningar visar henne i en åtstramning ras med presumtiva GOP nominerade Donald Trump. Clinton har 1 812 utlovade delegater som vunnit i primärval och kaukasus. Hon har även stöd av 571 superdelegater, enligt en Associerad Pressräkning. AP granskade alla 714 superdelegater upprepade gånger under de senaste sju månaderna, och endast 95 förblir offentligt oengagerade. Medan superdelegater formellt inte kommer att avlägga sina röster för Clinton förrän partiets julikonvent i Philadelphia, har alla som räknas i hennes räkning entydigt sagt till AP att de kommer att göra det. En talesman för Bernie Sanders påverkas inte av matematiken, uppger Politico. — Sekreteraren Clinton har inte och kommer inte att ha det erforderliga antalet utlovade delegater för att säkra nomineringen, sade Michael Briggs. "Hon kommer att vara beroende av superdelegater som inte röstar förrän den 25 juli och som kan ändra sig mellan nu och då." Utvecklingen kommer strax före omröstningen i Kalifornien.
“On behalf of the AP, Hillary Clinton has just written U.S. history: On Monday, the news service declared that she has captured commitments from the number of delegates needed to become the Democratic prospective nominee, the first woman to do so for any of the parties. But the Sanders camp is not convinced. AP says Clinton reached 2,383 delegates with a crucial weekend victory in Puerto Rico and an outbreak of last-minute support from superdelegates. They are party officials and office holders, many of them are eager to finish the primary amid preference polls show her in a austerity race with presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. Clinton has 1,812 promised delegates who won in the primary and caucasus. She also has the support of 571 superdelegates, according to an Associated Press bill. The AP reviewed all 714 superdelegates repeatedly over the past seven months, and only 95 remain publicly uninvolved. While superdelegates will not formally cast their votes for Clinton until the party's July Convention in Philadelphia, all who count on her behalf have unequivocally told the AP that they will. A spokesman for Bernie Sanders is not affected by mathematics, states Politico. — Secretary Clinton has not and will not have the required number of promised delegates to secure the nomination, said Michael Briggs. "She will depend on superdelegates who do not vote until July 25 and who can change between now and then." Developments come just before the California vote.