Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton celebrated a victorious Super Tuesday in an address to her supporters at a rally in Miami, after primary wins in states across the South.
“All across our country today, Democrats voted to break down barriers so we can all rise together,” Clinton said.
She made the speech as results were still rolling in from the states that held their Democratic primaries Tuesday. She scored an early wave of victories in states in the South, in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. She also picked up Massachusetts.
Her rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), meanwhile, won in his home state of Vermont, and in Colorado, Oklahoma and Minnesota.
Clinton’s speech hinted that Democrats were on their to uniting behind her candidacy. She also took shots at Donald Trump — who had his own big victories Tuesday — while decrying broader tone of the GOP race.
“I believe what we need in America today is more love and kindness. You know what, it works. Instead of building walls, we’re going to break down barriers and build ladders of opportunity and empowerment so every American can live up to his or her potential because then and only then can America live up to its full potential too,” she said. “It’s clear tonight that the stakes in this election have never been higher, and the rhetoric we’re hearing on the other side has never been lower.”
She hit many of her top policy campaign priorities — such as economic opportunity, gender equality, and racial justice — while she previewed the kind of contrast she would draw with a Republican nominee in the general election, particularly if that nominee was Trump
“We know we’ve got work to do. That work, that work is not to make America great again. America never stopped being great,” she said. “We have to make America whole. We have to fill in what’s been hollowed out. We have to make strong the broken place, restitch the bonds of trust and respect across our country.”
Sanders gave his own Super Tuesday speech in Vermont earlier in the evening, after his win there had been projected, but before many of the other races had been called. Sanders thanked his home state for voting “so strongly to put us in the White House” and reminded his supporters that the delegates allotted in Super Tuesday were not “winner-take-all.”
“What I have said is that this campaign is not just about electing a president. It is about making a political revolution,” Sanders said.
