 it means that as soon as the party actually takes a vote a roll call vote of all of those delegates she will become the party's nominee she isn't yet just because they've pledged her support but there are no other candidates in this race nobody has stood up to challenge her and more than half of the delegates who will be going to the chicago convention say they're going to vote for her so that gives her the nomination and curiously enough actually the democratic party probably aren't going to wait until they get to their convention in chicago they're going to do this virtually