Clinton claims nomination victory; Sanders still campaigning

June 8, 2016 8:14 am

By News Staff

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The Associated Press

Democrat Hillary Clinton has claimed her place in history as the nation’s first woman ever assured a major party’s presidential nomination while Republican Donald Trump took a more unifying path following the nation’s final, major primaries, vowing never to let GOP voters down.

Both are now solidly their parties’ presumptive nominees but Democrat Bernie Sanders isn’t quite ready to call it a campaign. He’s returning to Vermont and meets with the president tomorrow.

Clinton, speaking in Brooklyn, New York, told supporters that they were witnessing a historical moment.

She also used the speech to take direct aim at Donald Trump. She called out the billionaire for divisive rhetoric and casting his “Make America Great Again” slogan as "code for let’s take America backward.”

Clinton told supporters in Brooklyn, New York, that Trump was "temperamentally unfit” to be president.

Though he hasn’t thrown in the towel yet, Sanders Sanders last night said “we are in this together” and argued that a base tenet of his campaign was that "we will not allow right-wing Republicans to control our government.”