A day after clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton celebrated her historic victory as the first woman to lead the presidential ticket of a major U.S. political party.
"Tonight's victory is not about one person, it belongs to generations," Clinton told a beaming crowd in Brooklyn, New York. She reached out to supporters of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, her main Democratic primary challenger, but then pivoted to the contest at hand, repeating her charge, "Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president."
After three decades at the center of American politics as a pioneering -- and deeply controversial -- feminist icon, the victory brings Clinton within reach of finally cracking the "highest, hardest glass ceiling" she lamented when she conceded the Democratic race to Barack Obama.
The former first lady, senator from New York and secretary of state is set to become the Democratic nominee at next month's convention. She'll face presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in a general election battle that is already shaping up as one of the nastiest campaigns in modern U.S. history.
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