Joe Biden clinched the Democratic presidential nomination on Saturday with a big caucus victory on the U.S. island territory of Guam in the western Pacific
., Biden, the former vice president, received 27o votes, or 70 percent, beating Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, who received 118 votes, or 30 percent.That outcome gave Biden five of Guam's seven delegates to the Democratic national convention and — more importantly — pushed him across the numerical threshold of 1,991 delegates needed to formally secure the nomination to challenge President Donald Trump.
Biden, branded "Sleepy Joe" by the incumbent occupant of the White House, was apparently still awake when the results came in from Guam, shortly before midnight Eastern Daylight Time on Friday and promptlySanders suspended his campaign in April, leaving Biden as the presumptive Democratic nominee. The party convention is scheduled to be held in Milwaukee in August.
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