By Kristin Jensen and Kim Chipman
Barack Obama has won enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination for president based on projections from the South Dakota primary and pledges of party superdelegates, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC reported.
While Clinton was projected to win in South Dakota, according to Fox, Obama gained a big enough portion of the state's 15 pledged delegates to reach the threshold for the nomination, helped by a flurry of endorsements today from party leaders.
He is poised to become the first black candidate to lead a major U.S. party into the November general election.
In a speech he's scheduled to give tonight in Minnesota, Obama will declare himself the presumptive nominee and praise Clinton as an inspiration to millions of Americans.
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