With Booker’s help, Clinton nabs N.J. win

Published June 8, 2016 1:04am ET



Hillary Clinton won big in New Jersey Tuesday night, putting her well over the combined number of pledged Democratic delegates and superdelegates needed to secure her party’s presidential nomination.

The former secretary of state was named the presumptive Democratic nominee late Monday night by the Associated Press, following her weekend victories in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico and last-minute commitments from a handful of superdelegates to support her.

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