MSNBC has announced that the Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States. Clinton just says "I will be taking no decisions tonight, I want to hear from you." Go to my website, she says and consult me.
Let's take a moment to reflect on what we've built together. In the beginning, few thought this would be possible, but your faith in this campaign for change never wavered. Your remarkable outpouring of grassroots support has been absolutely pivotal to our success thusfar.
Let's celebrate tonight, but recognize that we have a tremendous challenge ahead of us. All of us will need to stay involved and give everything we have to this movement. We've got a lot of work ahead of us, but we're up for it.
Let's keep making history... reports Barack Obama's official campaign website.
CNN calls SD for Clinton. Putting in the time paid dividends for Hillary, while Obama was out campaigning in general election states, reports Daily Kos. The website continues saying that Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters undermining Obama's victory with claim of winning the popular vote.
Clinton says she wants 18 million Americans who voted for her to be "respected," and she wants universal health care.
According to CNN "Obama will hold a rally at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, the same arena which will house the 2008 Republican National Convention in September.
"Obama is expected to praise Clinton's campaign. He has been speaking favorably of the New York senator as his focus has turned toward the general election and his battle against John McCain, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.
"Senator Hillary Clinton has made history in this campaign not just because she's a woman who has done what no woman has done before, but because she's a leader who inspires millions of Americans with her strength, her courage, and her commitment to the causes that brought us here tonight," Obama will say."
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama appears to have won enough delegates to clinch his party's nomination for president, making him the first African-American to become a nominee for a major political party.
U.S. media are projecting that Obama now has enough delegate votes to win his party's nomination, reports Voice of America.
Obama, a 46-year-old senator from Illinois, is set for a showdown against 71-year-old veteran Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona in the November general election.
Obama will deliver a late-night speech in Minneapolis, Minnesota -- in the same convention center where McCain is to receive the Republican nomination in September. McCain is holding an evening rally in Kenner, Louisiana just outside New Orleans, where he already has taken verbal swipes at his presumed Democratic rival.
Obama apparently clinched the necessary number of delegates Tuesday evening. Montana and South Dakota, the final two states in the months-long nomination process, held primaries Tuesday.
He and Democratic rival Senator Hillary Clinton were vying for 31 delegates in the two states.
Clinton is to address supporters later in New York City.
The support of superdelegates helped moved Obama towards the necessary 2,118 delegates needed to clinch the nomination.
Sources close to the former first lady say she would consider joining Obama as his running mate if it would help Democrats win the White House in the November election.
Earlier Tuesday, Obama won the support of a key superdelegate, South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn, the third-highest ranking House Democrat. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is also expected to endorse Obama.
Superdelegates are elected officeholders and party activists who are free to vote for any candidate at the nominating convention this August in Denver, Colorado.
Contributed By VOA report, AP, CNN and AFP.
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