Clinton wins last primary, meets Sanders

Hillary Clinton captured the mostly symbolic Democratic primary Tuesday in the US capital, the final vote of the 2016 presidential primaries, as the race shifts to her showdown with Republican rival Donald Trump.

Clinton won nearly 79 percent of the vote against 21 percent for Bernie Sanders, with nearly all votes counted, according to US networks.

It marked a deflating finish for the Vermont senator, who captivated liberals and independents with a grassroots campaign that mounted a surprisingly strong challenge to Clinton.

Washington's primary was an afterthought as Clinton reached number of delegates needed to lock up the nomination last week.

On Tuesday night, Sanders and Clinton met at a Washington hotel "and had a positive discussion about their primary campaign, about unifying the party and about the dangerous threat that Donald Trump poses to our nation," a Clinton campaign official said after the meeting.

Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs said the two "had a positive discussion about how best to bring more people into the political process" and about the threat posed by Trump.

Clinton and Sanders also discussed what would be on the Democratic Party platform ahead of the national convention next month in Philadelphia.

Sanders told reporters ahead of the meeting that he wanted to see "the most progressive platform ever passed" at a convention, one which "makes it crystal clear that the Democratic Party is in fact on the side of working people."

Sanders met with President Barack Obama last week and emerged from the White House declaring his intent to work with Clinton to defeat Trump in November.

Obama endorsed Clinton later that day.

Tuesday's vote wraps up a spectacular primary season that saw conservatives flock to Trump, a celebrity billionaire and political novice, and liberals propel Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, into the national spotlight.