Hillary Clinton secures Democrat presidential nomination

Clinton’s campaign hoped the night of achievement, personal stories and praise could chip away at the deep distrust many voters, including some Democrats, have of the former secretary of state, senator and first lady.

March participant Tiara Willis, 24, of Philadelphia, said she subscribes to the slogan “I’m with her…” In North Carolina on Tuesday, he told a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that, “our politicians have totally failed you”.

The protesters say the media are part of a “rigged” system that saw Hillary Clinton get the nomination ahead of Sanders.

The Clinton camp is looking to unite the party’s factions.

Sanders supporters are trying to change the party platform to reduce their influence in future elections.

Early Tuesday morning, during Oregon’s state party meeting, delegates broke out into chants of “No TPP!” during a speech by its Democratic Sen. But it was also a historic and triumphant moment for women around the country – Clinton supporters or not – who could finally officially declare that a major party had nominated a woman for the presidency. “They can not silence us”.

Inside the convention hall, a long list of speakers were lining up to take the stage to support Clinton’s nomination.

Clinton will formally accept the nomination on Thursday night, before embarking on an intense fall campaign with polls showing her clash with Republican nominee Trump is, for now, too close to call.

A formidable campaigner, Clinton has vastly out-raised the mostly self-funded Trump campaign so far in 2016.

Once the nomination is sealed, the Clinton campaign planned to turn to a Day 2 program dubbed “Fights of Her Life”, highlighting her advocacy for children, health care and September 11 recovery efforts, the campaign said.

One speaker who drew no protests was first lady Michelle Obama, who provided a passionate appeal on behalf of a the former first lady “who has the guts and the grace to keep coming back and putting those cuts and those cracks in that highest glass ceiling”. Day said booing is one way in which those committed to Sanders can show their irritation at being treated dismissively by Clinton’s people. “Hillary did not pack up and go home”, she said. “As a true public servant Hillary knows that this is so much bigger than her own desires and disappointments”.

Despite Sanders calling on his flock to get behind Clinton, his self-styled “political revolution” appears to have transformed into a revolt.

“There is only one person who I trust with that responsibility, only one person who I believe is truly qualified to be president of the United States, and that is our friend, Hillary Clinton”, she said, before outlining the qualities of her husband’s 2008 primary rival.

The South Dakota delegation put Clinton over the edge around 6:40 p.m.

Still, several hundred people gathered at Philadelphia’s City Hall under a blazing sun Tuesday chanting “Bernie or bust”.

The longstanding bitterness between the Vermont senator’s supporters and Clinton’s seemed to grow worse over the past few days after a trove of hacked emails showed that officials at the Democratic National Committee played favorites during the primaries and worked to undermine Sanders’ campaign.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was investigating the “cyber intrusion”, which the Clinton campaign blamed on Russian hackers it said are bent on helping Trump.

Carolyn, from your perspective as a Hillary Clinton supporter, what did you think of how it looked, how it all came off last night?