Hillary Clinton makes history as first female presidential nominee

Hillary secured the nomination after 4,764 party delegates formally backed her.

AB Wire

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday created history by became the first woman to win the presidential nomination of a major political party as she secured the backing of the Democrats at the convention in Philadelphia.

The former secretary of state, who has been a Senator from New York and first lady, secured the nomination after a majority of 4,764 party delegates formally backed her.

The 68-year-old Clinton would become America’s first female president and commander-in-chief, if she elected in the November 8 polls.

“This is really your victory. This is really your night. And if there are any little girls out there who stayed up late to watch, let me just say I may become the first woman president but one of you is next,” Clinton, who appeared by video from New York, said.

“What an incredible honour that you have given me and I can’t believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet,” she said.

Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s rival from the primaries, moved a resolution for her nomination and prompted resounding cheers.

“I move that Hillary Clinton be nominated as the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate of the United States” Sanders said but he failed to bring all his delegates on line.

Most of the seats in delegations from Maine, Kansas, Alaska and Oklahoma, where Sanders won against Clinton, were empty.

Clinton then sent out a video on Twitter showing Sanders’s remarks and declaring “Strong together,” her campaign motto.

It was Barbara A Mikulski, the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate, and the first woman to chair the powerful Senate committee on Appropriations, who proposed Clinton’s nomination.

At 6.56 pm eastern time, a loud roar of ayes arose making Hillary Clinton the nominee and set up an epic clash with Republican rival Donald Trump.

Clinton is scheduled to deliver her acceptance speech tomorrow.

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