Joe Biden is now the Democratic presidential nominee, after reaching the threshold of 1,991 pledged delegates needed to clinch his party’s nomination. In April, the Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) hammered out a deal to begin joint fundraising and other partnerships. So Biden’s clinching of the nomination is mostly a formality and doesn’t really alter his relationship with the national party. Biden will formally become the party’s standard-bearer when he’s officially nominated in August at the Democratic National Convention. THE LATEST FROM FOX NEWS ON THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNFour years ago Hillary Clinton also clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in early June.

Source: Fox News June 06, 2020 02:33 UTC