HILLARY BREAKS GLASS CEILING

US PREZ POLLS: BECOMES FIRST WOMAN NOMINEE

PHILADELPHIA: Hillary Clinton on Tuesday became the first woman nominated by a major US party to run for the White House, after her rival Bernie Sanders called for an end to formalities and vote her through.

“I move that Hillary Clinton be selected as the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States,” Sanders said during a roll call of votes, by acclamation, at the Democratic National Convention.

Some of his supporters left the floor, unmoved by his appeal to rally around Clinton, but most others stayed back, as their party made history by nominating a woman. “It’s an incredible honour you have given me,” Clinton said later in a video link from New York. “I can’t believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet.”

They had indeed. And it took a very different America to do that than the one that gathered last week to anoint her Republican rival Donald Trump. It looked and sounded different.

As it turned out, it even made peace between its warring sections differently and, in an incontrovertible move sealing the contrast, picked its presidential nominee differently.

Rewind to Ted Cruz’s non-endorsement of Trump amid boos and catcalls at the Republican convention, and then the nominee lashing back at his critics, threatening to destroy them politically. That was only one of the many differences that manifested themselves at the convention here — most remarkable of them was the demographic diversity of the Democratic party.

There were more African Americans in any of the restrooms at the Democratic convention venue — a stadium — than there were in all of the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland. And Spanish rang out loud and clear from the stage, the floor and even among those protesting outside.