The former vice president crossed the threshold of 1,991 delegates to take on President Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election.
After he secured enough delegates on Friday to clinch the Democratic nomination, former vice president Joe Biden said that he will go into the election in November as the candidate of a “united party.”
Since April, when Bernie Sanders ended his campaign, Biden has been the presumptive nominee for the Democratic party. On Friday he formally reached the 1,991 delegates needed to secure the nomination after results were registered from seven states and the District of Columbia.
Biden has 1,995 delegates, with contests still to come in eight states and three U. S. territories, the Associated Press reported. Meanwhile, Sanders is still collecting delegates in an effort to influence the party’s platform at its August convention, The Guardian reported.
