The Democratic convention formally nominated Hillary Clinton for president on Tuesday, making history by choosing a woman to be the first standard-bearer of a major political party, a breakthrough underscored by a deeply personal speech by Bill Clinton calling her “the best darn change-maker I have ever known.”
At
6:39 p.m., the hall erupted in cheers and joyful tears as South Dakota
cast the decisive 15 votes to put Mrs. Clinton over the threshold of
2,382 delegates required to clinch the nomination.
A
sea of delegates waved multicolored signs with Mrs. Clinton’s “H”
campaign logo, while others fell into hugs and several women jumped up
and down with elation.
Vince
Insalaco, the chairman of the Democratic Party of Arkansas, where the
Clintons built their public profile over two decades, said the choice of
the first female presidential nominee was a historic moment.
“I’m so proud to be a Democrat tonight,” Mr. Insalaco said, “and so proud that we can call this woman one of our own.”
Mrs.
Clinton’s primary rival, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, played a
symbolic role in hopes of unifying the party behind her. After Vermont
arranged to go last in the roll call, Mr. Sanders joined its delegation
to roars of “Bernie, Bernie” and called on the party to rally behind
Mrs. Clinton.
But it was the appearance of Mr. Clinton, shortly after 10 p.m., that
stirred the crowd most, as he set out to share a more personal side of
the sometimes-reserved former secretary of state.
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