Overall, New York businessman Donald Trump won New York’s primary with 60.4 percent.
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DONALD TRUMP: I’m about 300 delegates ahead of lyin’ Ted.
A confident Trump insisted it was impossible for his rivals to catch him.
“We don’t have much of a race anymore based on what I’m seeing on television”, Trump said as television networks projected a large margin of victory for him.
Sanders elevated key issues: “Bernie Sanders started at 3 percent in the polls, making his final tally of support impressive in a state where Secretary Clinton served eight years as a US senator”.
Exit polls suggested Democrats were ready to rally around whoever the party nominates. Women back Clinton 55% to 38%, but men give Sanders the edge by 50% to 45%.
“You have to be part of the process or shame on you complaining after it’s over”, Brown, who has endorsed Trump, told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” host Bill Hemmer. So, we’re going to celebrate for about two hours, then early in the morning I get up and we begin working again. Last night, senior adviser Tad Devine said they will – quote – “assess where we are after next week’s primaries”.
On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton picked up 175 delegates to 106 for Vermont Sen.
The fight for New York’s delegate haul consumed the presidential contenders for two weeks, an eternity in the fast-moving White House race.
The front-runners now hope to replicate their strong showings in NY in the cluster of Northeastern states next up on the primary calendar. Next week, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Pennsylvania vote and are expected to continue Trump’s string of victories. Sanders spent Tuesday in Pennsylvania, as did Republican Sen. Cruz received only 1,762 votes to bring him to 11 percent in that area.
Nate Silver, a pollster at FiveThirtyEight, predicted Mr. Sanders needed to win NY by about 9 pledged delegates in order to remain on track for the nomination.
“We must unite the Republican Party because doing so is the first step in uniting all Americans”, Cruz said in formal remarks.
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”.
The trio is scheduled to address the California Republican Party’s upcoming convention in Burlingame, with Trump speaking at an opening lunch reception April 29 and Cruz and Kasich filling afternoon and evening slots on April 30. “And if it does change into something more conventional, would it lose the spark that made him a phenomenon in the first place?”
The surveys were conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and television networks. Securing the GOP nomination requires 1,237.
In all, there are 674 remaining GOP delegates and 1,668 remaining Democratic delegates.
WCPO Insiders can read how Kasich will do in the upcoming Interstate 95 corridor of primaries.
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Clinton’s win could blunt Sanders’ momentum once and for all and leave Sanders with a tough decision on how to proceed as she extends her overwhelming lead in the Democratic race.
