Hillary Clinton makes history as she claims the Democratic nomination
Hillary Clinton made history on Tuesday night as she became the first woman to claim the presidential nomination of a major U.S. political party.
"Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone," she told supporters at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. "Tonight's victory is not about one person. It belongs to generations of women and men who struggled and sacrificed and made this moment possible." Clinton mentioned her late mother, and how she wished she could see her daughter become the nominee, and told supporters to not "let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America. Barriers can come down, justice and equality can win. Our history has moved in that direction, slowly at times, but unmistakably thanks to generations of Americans who refuse to give up or back down… This campaign is about making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us, and this is our moment to come together."
Clinton also congratulated Bernie Sanders on the "extraordinary campaign" he waged, and said "the vigorous debate that we've had about how to raise incomes, reduce inequality, increase upward mobility have been very good for the Democratic Party and for America."
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Her tone sharpened when the topic shifted to presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. Clinton said he is "temperamentally unfit to be president and commander-in-chief" and called his slogan of "Make America Great Again" a "code for 'let's take America backwards.'" She scolded him for mocking reporters with disabilities, saying a judge's Mexican heritage prevented him from doing his job properly, and calling women pigs, and said his comments go "against everything we stand for, because we want an America where everyone is treated with respect and where their work is valued, and it's clear that Donald Trump doesn't believe we are stronger together."
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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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