Hillary Clinton 'puts the biggest crack in glass ceiling'

Hillary Clinton 'puts the biggest crack in glass ceiling'. July. 28, 2016 07:26. by 필라델피아=이승헌 특파원ddr@donga.com. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has become the first woman in U.S. history to win the presidential nomination of a major political party. The curtain has now risen on a historic U.S. presidential race between Donald Trump, the Republican candidate who is called a "Washington outsider," and the first woman contender.

She clinched the Democratic Party's nomination during the roll call at the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday (local time), emerging with a total of 2,842 votes to her competitor Senator Bernie Sanders' 1,865

After the roll call vote, Sanders moved to stop the rest of the voting process, including vote tallying, and asked delegates to accept Hillary Clinton's official nomination as the party's presidential candidate, clearly showing the politics of acceptance to ensure the party unity. "We just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet," Clinton said via a live video feed. Despite an e-mail leak from the Democratic National Committee, Sanders calmed down his angry supporters and declared his support for Clinton.

However, analysts say that Clinton's chances of winning the upcoming presidential election is lower than before due to Trump's convention effect and fallouts from the e-mail leak. "In the wake of the Republican National Convention and continued damage to Clinton's reputation from the email scandal, just 52 percent of respondents to the July CNBC Fed Survey (of the 43 economists, fund managers and analysts) now believe the Democratic nominee will prevail in November, a sharp drop from 80 percent in the April and June surveys," CNBC reported. Among the respondents, 26 percent foresaw a Trump victory, up from 15 percent.