Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton notched huge wins in New York Tuesday night, resoundingly answering questions about their command of the race as the front-runners moved much closer to their nominations.
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Speaking in Trump Tower in New York City, he said Mr Cruz “is just about mathematically eliminated” from clinching the delegates needed to win outright before the national convention.
Speaking after the result of the primary was announced, Mr Trump said: “To the people that know me the best – the people of NY – when they give us this kind of a vote it’s just incredible”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to speak at a NY primary night campaign event, Tuesday, April 19, 2016, in NY.
Mrs Clinton told them there was “no place like home”, adding: “New Yorkers, you’ve always had my back”.
In New York City Clinton whitewashed Sanders, whose campaign is deperately seeking enough delegates not to be left behind the former secretary of states’s already distant lead.
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won the rural New York Democratic Party presidential primary in a landslide, claiming 60 percent of the vote in the counties outside the state’s metropolitan regions. Clinton won 139 delegates to Sanders’ 106 delegates – widening Clinton’s lead over the Vermont senator after he won the previous seven primaries and caucuses.
“We’ve won in every region of the country”, Clinton says. The billionaire also gets 42 percent of moderate or liberal Republicans, compared to 41 percent for Kasich. But most of Trump’s pledged delegates are only required to vote for him on the first ballot, giving Cruz and Kasich hope that convention delegates could switch their allegiance to them on subsequent ballots.
That means he will be able to stay on target, at least for now, in his quest to clinch the Republican nomination by winning nearly 70 percent of the remaining delegates in order to reach 1,237 and avoid a brokered GOP convention in July.
“Threatening to ban Muslims” and treating American- Muslims like “criminal” go against “everything America stands for”, she said. She lost only one NY county to Obama: Tompkins, home to Ithaca and Cornell University. Ohio Governor John Kasich, who came in second in NY, remains a long-shot candidate.
Bernie Sanders has attacked the role of superdelegates in the Democratic nomination process but now he explicitly needs their support in order to win the Democratic nomination.
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“It is absurd that in Brooklyn, New York – where I was born, actually – tens of thousands of people as I understand it, have been purged from the voting rolls”, Sanders said at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania where voters will next take to the polls April 26. Trump scored a sweeping victory in Tuesday’s NY primary. In order to seize the democratic nomination, a candidate must win 2,383 delegates.
