Hillary Clinton wins D.C. primary

Hillary Clinton closed out the 2016 primary season with a convincing win in Tuesday’s Washington, D.C., primary. The former secretary of state easily defeated Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. The Associated Press called the race less than an hour after the polls closed, with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee leading by a healthy margin of 58 percent.

The D.C. primary is the final primary contest of the year, which comes after four and a half months of intense campaigning that began Feb. 1 in Iowa. The Republicans ended their primary season last week with five contests in a race that was already sewed up for businessman Donald Trump. Clinton, thanks to the commitment of a majority of superdelegates, also already has enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination.

Clinton and Sanders planned to meet face-to-face after tonight’s results were finalized.

“We’re going to have a wide-ranging conversation, because we share a lot of the same goals,” Clinton said Tuesday night in an interview with Telemundo. “We both want to raise the minimum wage, we want to fight inequality of income, we want to make college affordable, and we certainly want everybody to get healthcare.”

Sanders, who has resisted calls for him to leave the race and endorse Clinton, said tonight’s meeting will help him determine how committed Clinton is to issues he supports.

“Our goal must not be to allow politicians, Donald Trump or anyone else, to divide us,” Sanders told reporters in Washington earlier today. He added that he would continue to “fight as hard as we can” to transform the Democratic Party.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.