Former Vice President Joe Biden has clinched a majority of delegates to the Democratic convention, locking up the party’s presidential nomination, according to The Associated Press.
The AP now projects that Biden has won 1,993 delegates to the national convention, just over the magic number of 1,991 required to secure the nomination on the first ballot.
For Biden, it was a matter of when, not if, he would hit that number after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) ended his campaign in early April, following a string of dominating victories for the former vice president in primaries throughout March. Continue reading.