Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton won four of the six primaries held on Tuesday. With a total of 694 delegates to be won, Clinton clinched New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, and California, while Bernie Sanders was declared the winner in Montana and North Dakota. The final contest for the Democrats is on June 14 in the District of Columbia.
On the Republican front, primaries were held in all five states except North Dakota, in the last leg of voting for the Republicans. Presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump won in all five states. In delegate-heavy California, he won the primary by a wide margin – with 75.76% of the votes, the real estate magnate won 166 delegates in the state primary.
On the eve of the primaries, it was reported that Clinton had enough delegates to win the Democratic presidential nomination, which could make her the first woman to secure the nomination of any major political party of the United States. A count of pledged delegates she won in the primaries and caucuses across the country and a survey of superdelegates, who have the power to support any candidate, indicated that Clinton had the overall support of the required 2,383 delegates she needs for the nomination.
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