WATCH: Hillary Clinton Gives Victory Speech in Brooklyn

UPDATE: Bernie Sanders responds Tuesday night from California.

BROOKLYN NAVY YARD, N.Y. — As her stubborn opponent slogged up and down Sunset Boulevard late Tuesday, begging for the last of the L.A. vegan vote, Hillary Clinton, frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination — or winner, if you ask the Associated Press — played it calm and cool on the East Coast, delivering a preemptive victory speech at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as the day's election results rolled in.

Her smirk of a venue choice? The Duggal Greenhouse, the same upscale warehouse where Clinton debated her Brooklyn-born rival, Bernie Sanders, back in April, after the two tried to out-New York each other for the better part of a month.

Seats at the Clinton victory event went like hotcakes Tuesday morning. By 7 p.m., the line outside the Navy Yard stretched down the block.

Meanwhile, voters in New Jersey, California, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota headed to the polls Tuesday for some of the last state primary elections of the 2016 campaign.

Clinton spoke around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. A video of her speech is included above. And below, our live blog through the night.

8:45 p.m.

The venue's already packed. And if there is any remaining doubt in anybody's mind just *what kind of speech* this is going to be, Hillary's supporters are clearing that up with a huge "HISTORY" sign in the back row. As in, Hillary is going to make history tonight as the nation's first female nominee for president.

This hilarious thing also happened earlier:

9 p.m.

Hillary stans are partying like it's November 2016 and their girl already beat the orange monster. Everyone's dancing to Lady Gaga and Alicia Keys (the New York song, of course) and straining their necks for a nominee sighting.

Some especially clever signs we've spotted: "Love Trumps Hate" and "Caution: Shattered Glass."

A young Muslim woman in the crowd named Roshan, from Washington Heights, says she thinks Hillary's (presumptive) nomination shows the U.S. is "willing to accept a woman president." She says the Republican nominee, Donald Trump — expected to give his own victory speech any minute now, elsewhere in New York — makes her "feel scared" to live in America.

Meanwhile, Patch's correspondent in the crowd, John V. Santore, says he just watched a couple girls scream into their Snapchats, both set to the Hillary filter. What a time.

9:15 p.m.

The crowd roars its approval when MSNBC calls New Jersey in Hillary's favor on a big-screen overhead — then boos when multiple states are called for Trump.

Meanwhile: "Hillary turned the State Department into her private hedge fund," Trump says from his victory party at Briarcliff Manor upstate. Reading from a teleprompter, he urges Bernie supporters to hop on the Trump wagon instead of settling for their second-choice Democrat.

9:30 p.m.

There seems to be a consensus at the Navy Yard that anyone still holding out hope for Bernie to pull ahead — especially given Hillary's early lead in multiple states tonight— is straight delusional. Speech-goer and Clinton Hill resident Nadia Vidal, for one, calls Hillary's opponent a "professional protester" who should concede the race.

9:45 p.m.

The drink options at the Duggal Greenhouse this evening are water, soda, organic lemonade, white wine, red wine and beer. A bartender working the night's historic refreshment booth tells Patch that beer is by far the most popular item on the menu.

More important still: Debra Messing sighting, y'all!

9:50 p.m.

Hillary just revealed her victory/history outfit on Twitter: A textured, stripey, blindingly white coat-type thing, buttoned up tight to her collarbone. It appears Trump is on TV in her prep room. She looks stressed.

Cheer up, Hill! The girl-power anthems are on blast, and the beautiful people of Brooklyn are yours tonight.

10 p.m.

Spotted: John Podesta, chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign, sharing a word with MSNBC reporter Andrea Mitchell on his way into the arena.

The crowd is getting drunk and restless. Flag waving has lulled. Audience members have invented a new and rather arduous chant, in which they spell out her name one letter at a time. H-I-L-L-A-R-Y.

10:13 p.m.

Bon Jovi just started playing, LOUD. This seems like it. This is it, right?

10:20 p.m.

The fanfare is out of control. A young woman sings "The Star-Spangled Banner." Presidential-sounding intro music blares. A teleprompter rises. The lights dim. Hill's new campaign ad on the women's rights movement (see below) plays on the big screen.

10:25 p.m.

And after all that, Hillary's walk-out song is... "Brave," by Sara Bareilles. A little anticlimactic, but we'll roll with it. "It is wonderful to be back in Brooklyn, here in this beautiful building," she says. "And it may be hard to see tonight, but we are all standing under a glass ceiling right now." Not a dry eye in the house.

The sound is screwy, though, and her mic's going in and out.

Seriously: What terrible slacker did the Duggal Greenhouse put in charge of wiring the sound for the first-ever victory speech by a female presidential nominee? Not a good look.

10:30 p.m.

"I want to congratulate Senator Sanders for the extraordinary campaign he has run," Hillary says. (Meanwhile, the YouTube comment section on the MSNBC live stream is an explosion of rage from Bernie bros across the country.)

"It never feels good to put your heart... into a cause you believe in, and come up short," she continues. "I know that feeling well. But as we look ahead to the battle that awaits, let's remember what unites us."

"Cooperation is better than conflict," she says, and "bridges are better than walls." (A Trump reference, clearly.)

10:35 p.m.

Hillary gets to the point. "Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit to be president..." she says, the rest of her sentence drowned out by the whoops and screams of the crowd.

Then she digs deeper still, ticking off a disgusting list of Trump's most bigoted moments: Discriminating against Mexicans, calling women pigs, mocking a reporter with disabilities, etc.

10:40 p.m.

Hillary Clinton might have just delivered the best line of her campaign.

The 2016 presidential election, she says, is "about millions of Americans coming together to say, 'We are better than this. We won't let this happen in America.'"

But the largest applause of the night, hands down, goes to: "I wish [my mom] could see her daughter become the Democratic Party's nominee."

There's a refreshing warmth to her tonight.

10:45 p.m.

"This campaign is about making sure there are no ceilings, no limits on any of us," Hillary says, before asking people to donate to her campaign online or via text message.

And with that, Bill and Chelsea join Hillary onstage for the afterparty. They descend into the crowd as a family and are immediately swarmed by Clintonistas with smartphones.

Just outside the venue, in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, there's electricity and elation on the night air. An overwhelming feeling of: Who run the world now, bro?

"It was a calm, confident speech, appealing to disaffected Republicans and Sanders supporters," our reporter on scene, John V. Santore, reflects in his final dispatch.

"And until the very end, she was alone onstage," he says. "It was her moment."

No word yet from Bernie Sanders — except to thank North Dakota.

11:30 p.m.

Hillary says in a late-night interview with ABC News that she wants to speak with Sanders about unifying the Democratic Party. "We have so much more in common than we have with the presumptive Republican nominee," she says. (Video below.)

Results have begun trickling in from California, and they're looking pretty dismal for Bernie so far.

12:05 a.m.

The New York Daily News says it "stopped the presses" on tomorrow's Trump cover to honor Hillary instead. Behold:

The White House, for its part, says Obama called both Clinton and Sanders tonight to thank them for running "inspiring campaigns that have energized Democrats." He's reportedly planning on meeting with Sanders in person Thursday at the White House to discuss "the weeks and months ahead."

12:20 a.m.

Bernie Sanders is expected to deliver a speech around 1 a.m. ET at a campaign rally his supporters are holding for him in Santa Monica, Calif. It's still unclear whether he'll concede to Hillary's early victory call; either way, there isn't an American still awake tonight who isn't curious to see how he's going to handle this.

Below, live video from the Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, where loud rock music is blasting and a crowd of Bernie bros are, hate to say it, clutching their campaign paraphernalia with the white-knuckled desperation of a losing team.

2 a.m.

Bernie announces he'll fight to the end. Trump is the worst, he admits, but other stuff matters, too.

There's just one more race to go — in tiny yet symbolic Washington, D.C. — before the Democratic Convention.

"I am pretty good in arithmetic, and I know that the fight in front of us is a very, very steep fight," Bernie says. "But we will continue to fight for every vote we can get."