It took eight years longer than she expected, but Hillary Rodham Clinton is finally the standard bearer for her party, one night of voting away from the White House.
The former First Lady and US Secretary of State formally accepted the Democratic nomination for President Thursday night at the ongoing Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, in the process making history as the first female presidential candidate of any major party in the United States.
Clinton won a long and tortured primary fight against populist Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, exorcising the ghosts of 2008 when a then unheralded one term senator from Illinois overtook her for the crown she had deemed destined for.
Hillary delivered a massive speech to accept the coronation, at a convention packed with Democratic heavyweights as they make a play to keep the White House for a third consecutive term.
Clinton would battle real estate mogul and Repuclican Presidential nominee Donald J. Trump in November’s elections to become the next commander-in-chief of the world’s most powerful nation.