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| Hillary Clinton has clinched the Democratic Party nomination for US president after reaching the required number of delegates, according to AP. | |
| The news agency's tally puts Mrs Clinton on 2,383 - the number needed to make her the presumptive nominee. | |
| Mrs Clinton will become the first female nominee for a major US political party. | |
| Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, her rival for the nomination, said he intended to stay in the race until the party's convention in July. | |
| Mrs Clinton reached the threshold with a big win in Puerto Rico and a burst of last-minute support from party insiders called superdelegates, AP said. | |
| At an appearance in Long Beach, California, shortly after the news broke, she said: "We are on the brink of a historic and unprecedented moment but we still have work to do. | |
| "We have six elections tomorrow and we're gonna fight hard for every single vote, especially right here in California." | |
| Superdelegates pledge their support for a candidate ahead of the convention but do not formally vote for them until the convention itself. | |
| The nominee for either party is not officially named until the parties' respective conventions. | |
| Mr Sanders' campaign team said the Vermont senator would attempt to win back superdelegates who have pledged their support to Mrs Clinton. | |
| Mr Sanders' spokesman Michael Briggs said that calling the Democratic contest before the superdelegates formally vote at the convention was a "rush to judgment". |