On Tuesday night it became all but official: Hillary Clinton at last became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, and the first woman to win a presidential nomination for a major political party. Out of the six states that voted on Tuesday, Clinton won four.

”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,” she said in a speech at a rally in Brooklyn on Tuesday night.

Clinton won California, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota, while Bernie Sanders won Montana and North Dakota.

Clinton has already had a long career in politics–as first lady, senator, secretary of state, and two times as a candidate for president. And it hasn’t been without obstacles, ranging from her husband’s alleged affairs and the Lewinsky scandal in 1998, the eight hour questioning over her handling of the Benghazi terror attacks in 2012 by the Republicans (which gave birth to the GIF below), and most recently the use of her private email server for classified State Department business.

Well this is just a tremendous GIF. #BenghaziCommittee pic.twitter.com/Bnpi6rcQ43

— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) October 22, 2015

One big issue for Clinton has been falling numbers in surveys about her trustworthiness. In a national poll in March, only 37 percent of participants said they think she is an honest and trustworthy person, which is a notable low. But that didn’t stop her from securing the nomination.

What’s next?

The next step for Clinton is to try and win over the Bernie supporters, which is easier said than done considering his supporters don’t seem to trust her. Sanders has done better in the primary than many had dared to hope for, and many supporters have said they would rather vote for Trump than for Clinton, perhaps in an attempt to push Clinton further to the left. Either way, she may need Sanders’ help and endorsement to win over some young liberals that would prefer him in office.

Let’s keep making history, together.https://t.co/7IIvZVW3HY

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 8, 2016

Reports came Monday night from the AP that Clinton had won the nomination, based on votes from superdelegates who actually haven’t cast their votes yet, since that will officially happen at the Democratic National Convention in July. This upset Sanders supporters, and his advisers worried the news would affect the voter turnout on the Tuesday. The possibility that superdelegates can change their minds is what has kept Sanders’ side going, and his campaign manager Michael Briggs said in a statement on Monday:

It is unfortunate that the media, in a rush to judgment, are ignoring the Democratic National Committee’s clear statement that it is wrong to count the votes of superdelegates before they actually vote at the convention this summer.

On Tuesday night, Sanders still pledged to stay in the race until the very end, and thanked all his supporters for being part of a political revolution. The next, and last, primary election will be held in Washington D.C. on June 14.

Emma Von Zeipel

Emma Von Zeipel is a staff writer at Law Street Media. She is originally from one of the islands of Stockholm, Sweden. After working for Democratic Voice of Burma in Thailand, she ended up in New York City. She has a BA in journalism from Stockholm University and is passionate about human rights, good books, horses, and European chocolate. Contact Emma at EVonZeipel@LawStreetMedia.com.

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Last night’s Democratic primaries ended with victory for Sanders in Oregon, and for Clinton in Kentucky–although she finished that primary with only half a percentage point more than Sanders. The fact that Sanders keeps winning some states points, according to some, to weaknesses in Clinton’s strategy. But more importantly, it indicates that a big group of voters still want Sanders in the White House and agree with his ideas, so maybe it’s not over quite yet. And in a speech in California, Sanders once again asserted that he would not give up until the last vote is cast, saying “Don’t tell Secretary Clinton, she might get nervous–I think we’re going to win California.”

As of now, Clinton has a total count of 2,291 delegates compared to Sanders’ 1,528–this count includes superdelegates. There are 946 delegates still up for grabs. It has long been seen as a matter of course that Clinton will be the Democratic nominee, but as Sanders keeps going strong and party unification seems far away, tensions have increased between the two sides. Last Saturday it boiled over for some Sanders supporters, who started revolting after a number of Sanders delegates were deemed ineligible by throwing chairs and yelling at the Democratic convention in Nevada. They claimed that the elections are rigged and expressed death threats aimed at the chairwoman of the Nevada Democratic Party, Roberta Lange.

Sanders’ seemingly mellow response to the violence has surprised and upset many. He only spent one sentence on it in a press release on Tuesday, but focused mainly on the same thing the angry supporters had been saying, namely how the party interfered with a fair and Democratic process. He was urged by some Senators and party leaders to take control of his supporters. Some voices in the Democratic Party also asked the Bernie supporters themselves to be sensible and support the candidate who gets the most votes and delegates, since it is more important that the party stands united against the Republicans.

After all, the results in Kentucky and Oregon do show that Clinton still is the probable nominee. To have an actual chance to win the whole thing, Bernie would have needed a much bigger margin in Oregon–over four times bigger than it was. But the fact that he is still running means that Clinton needs to divide her focus between beating Sanders in the remaining states, unifying the Democratic Party, and fighting Trump–all tasks that will certainly continue to take some extra effort.

Emma Von Zeipel

Emma Von Zeipel is a staff writer at Law Street Media. She is originally from one of the islands of Stockholm, Sweden. After working for Democratic Voice of Burma in Thailand, she ended up in New York City. She has a BA in journalism from Stockholm University and is passionate about human rights, good books, horses, and European chocolate. Contact Emma at EVonZeipel@LawStreetMedia.com.

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