Biden clinches the Democratic presidential nomination
Joe Biden has formally clinched the
Democratic presidential nomination, according to the Associated Press tally,
officially setting off his general election campaign to unseat President Donald
Trump.
The former
vice president passed the milestone after collecting 1,993 delegates to the
national convention, two more than the 1,991 needed to become the nominee.
Mail-in ballots from Indiana, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, which released
results Friday evening, pushed Biden over the top.
Biden became
the de facto nominee after his last serious challenger, Vermont Senator Bernie
Sanders, suspended his campaign in April.
Biden will
be formally nominated at the Democratic National Convention in August.
At 77, Biden would be the oldest president
ever elected. He becomes the Democratic Party’s nominee after serving eight
years as President Barack Obama’s vice president and more than 35 years as a senator
from Delaware.