Hillary Clinton.
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Hillary Clinton will win the New Jersey Democratic primary, CNN is projecting. With 98 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton is leading with 63 percent of the vote compared to Bernie Sanders with 37 percent. Heading into Tuesday's primaries, Clinton has 1,812 pledged delegates, and after interviews with superdelegates, The Associated Press reported on Monday night she has the necessary 2,383 delegates to be called the presumptive Democratic nominee.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.