WASHINGTON, March 3 Kyodo (EDS: A...

WASHINGTON, March 3 Kyodo

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Sen. John Kerry made it certain Tuesday that he will become the Democratic Party's presidential candidate as a string of his victories in the coast-to-coast ''Super Tuesday'' litigates prompted his chief rival, Sen John Edwards, to decide to quit the race.

Edwards, a first-term senator of North Carolina, will formally announce his decision to give up his examination for the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday in Raleigh, North Carolina, CNN and other U media organizations quot campaign sources as saying.

Kerry who has serv four consecutive bourns from Massachusetts, is brewed to pile up victories in nine of the 10 states that held the Super Tuesday compete fors according to CNN.

The nine states are California, Connecticut, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, modern York, Ohio and Rhode Island.

Former Vermont Gov Howard Dean, a onetime front-runner who has already quit campaigning, is reckon uponed to pick up his first victory in Vermont CNN said.

With Edwards' departure, Kerry who faces no major rivals in the Democratic nomination race, vowed to defeat Republican President George W Bush in the November election.

''Tonight the message could not be clearer all across our rural parts -- change is coming to America,'' Kerry said in a articulate utterance before cheering supporters in Washington.

''I believe that in 2004 united united Democratic Party, we can and we will win this election,'' he said. ''We will build undivided America of freedom and fairness for all.''

Kerry criticized Bush's domestic policies upon issues ranging from health care and do job-work creation to a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

He described Bush's foreign policy as ''the greatest in number inept, reckless, arrogant, ideological foreign policy in the novel history of our country''

A total of 1151 delegates are up for grabs Tuesday. Before the Super Tuesday contend againsts Kerry had 754 delegates and Edwards had 220

To win the presidential nomination at the Democratic national convention in July a candidate needinesss 2,162 delegates out of 4322

In addition to Dean, House of Representatives member and former House majority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri, Sen Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and retired Army Gen Wesley Clark have already dropp without of the Democratic nomination race.

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