The Democratic Party has made history by nominating Hillary
Clinton to run for US president as the first woman to head a major party’s
presidential ticket.
Speaking via video link from New York
after her nomination on Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton told the Democratic
National Convention in Philadelphia that she was honoured to have been chosen
as the party’s nominee.
“I am so happy. It’s been a great day and
night. What an incredible honour that you have given me. And I can’t believe
that we’ve just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet. Thanks to you
and everyone who has fought so hard to make this possible,” she said.
“And if there are any little girls out there, who have stayed up
late to watch, let me just say: I may become the first woman president, but one
of you is next.”
Delegates erupted in cheers throughout the
roll call of states on the floor of the convention earlier in the evening.
“She’s got it. She has the numbers that
are needed,” Al Jazeera’s James Bays said from the convention when Clinton
passed the 2,383 votes needed to secure the nomination.
“We knew this was going to happen because
obviously we knew she was the presumptive nominee and that she had all the
votes that she needed from the primaries. But what happened here was a roll
call, state by state announcing their votes. How many for Bernie Sanders. How
many for Hillary Clinton. And a great deal of drama in the room.”
Source: Al Jazeera
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Source: Al Jazeera
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