WITH NOMINATION, CLINTON MAKES A HUGE CRACK IN GLASS CEILING

Philadelphia, July 27: Hillary Clinton secured the Democratic Party’s White House nomination, coming back from a stinging defeat in her first presidential run in 2008 and surviving a bitter primary fight to become the first woman to head the ticket of a major party in US history.

In a symbolic show of party unity, Clinton’s former rival, US Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, on Tuesday told the chairwoman from the convention floor that Clinton, 68, should be selected as the party’s nominee at the dramatic climax of a state-by-state roll call at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia.

Cappingnearlyaquartercentury in public life, Clinton will become the party’s standardbeareragainstRepublicannominee Donald Trump in November 8 election when she accepts the nomination on Thursday.

“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 told the convention via a video satellite link.

In nominating Clinton, delegates made the point that the selection of a woman was a milestone in America’s 240year-old history. Women got the right to vote in 1920 after ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.

Reuters

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