New Yorker Pamela Hamilton attended Hillary Clinton primary night party and voted for her earlier in the NY primary, April 20, 2016. Trump has developed numerous projects in NY and lives there in a luxury high-rise building, while Clinton has made NY her adoptive home and was twice elected to the Senate from the state. If no one won half the total, those “at-large” delegates would be split among candidates winning more than 20 percent of the vote. “Now all he can do is be a spoiler, never a nice thing to do”. “And I think he ought to build on that, and he and Hillary ought to work together”. Trump, 69, predicted some “amazing weeks” ahead for his campaign. Clinton holds a significant lead among women (61% to 32%), while Sanders leads among men (50% to 41%).
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“They are going to want to win in November”, Weaver said regarding superdelegates.
“You can go in there and vote for Trump and vote for three delegates that are three votes against Trump”, said Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., a state co-chairman of Trump’s campaign.
He sent campaign advisers to a Republican National Committee meeting in Hollywood, Florida starting on Wednesday.
After Trump’s big win Tuesday in NY, the billionaire now has 844 delegates, while Cruz has 300 fewer delegates.
Trump has won 47 per cent of the delegates awarded so far.
‘We don’t have much of a race anymore’. When it is most politically convenient, the former NY senator has tried to paint herself more liberal than Sanders.
Trump’s loss on the Manhattan isle will do little to effect his delegate count-which has him winning 90 of the 95 potential delegates.
After the number from the NY primaries were revealed, Donald Trump was confirmed to be leading the race, with 845 delegates, followed by Ted Cruz, with 559, and John Kasick, with 147. Next Tuesday’s contests offer 172 delegates for Republicans and more than 460 for Democrats. In the latest poll of likely general election voters, 45 per cent said they would support Clinton while 35 per cent would support Trump if the two were running against each other.
Bernie Sanders was telling crowds that a win in Wisconsin’s Democratic primary would propel him to victory in NY. This year, she lost rural NY by about 20 points.
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The U.S. senator from Texas, once hopeful he could win the nomination without a contested convention, is now conceding a floor fight is his only hope.
