Still, wariness of Trump among Republican Jews seemed to be evident in the New York City area and denied him a coveted sweep of the state’s 95 delegates. I think Bernie Sanders’s case was heard in NY; she succeeded in her home state; but I think more voters will respond to it all across this country – all the way through California and the District of Columbia.
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The only blemish on an otherwise flawless evening for Trump was that he left a few delegates on the table.
“Ted Cruz is mathematically out of winning the race”.
Trump, too, is eager to move past the Republican primaries.
Cruz, at a news conference on the sidelines of a Republican National Committee meeting in Hollywood, Florida, said neither he nor Trump will amass the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination without a contested convention in Cleveland starting on July 18.
“After her win in NY this week, these numbers in nearby Pennsylvania suggest that the entire northeast is looking pretty good for the Clinton campaign”, Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in a statement accompanying the poll’s release. Lyin’ Ted Cruz, lyin’ Ted.
“It’s impossible to catch us”, Trump told the Trump Tower crowd celebrating Tuesday night’s victory in Tuesday’s NY primary.
Trump gave a shout out to Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA) and Rep. Tom Marino (R-PA), who he said were at the rally.
The side-by-side GOP efforts at this late stage – with Trump amassing primary victories while Cruz digs for the support of delegates who could settle the nomination – are unprecedented in recent presidential campaigns and add to the deeply uncertain nature of the race. Kasich won Trump’s home turf of Manhattan, and Cruz beat Trump in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods like Crown Heights and Borough Park in Brooklyn.
Trump won the NY primary with over 60 percent of the vote – his best showing so far in the 2016 race.
Among likely Democratic primary voters in the Keystone State, Clinton has 52% support to Sanders’ 39%.
In an e-mail to NBC 4, one voter accused poll workers at their precinct of election fraud, saying the workers were attempting to trick Democratic voters into casting a ballot for Hillary Clinton instead of Bernie Sanders.
Sanders sought to tout his NY roots in ads.
Cruz campaigned in Hershey, Pennsylvania, trying to brush off his Tuesday shellacking in NY, where he failed to pick up a single delegate.
The Vermont senator vowed to keep competing. Additional information came from the Associated Press. However, his senior adviser, Tad Devine, said later that the campaign planned to “sit back and assess where we are” after a string of contests next week.
Donald Trump recently nicknamed Hillary Clinton “Crooked Hillary”.
Having spent months relying on a slim staff, Trump has started hiring more seasoned campaign veterans. When a chosen nominee is not in place, the parties have contested conventions.
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Trump’s victory also sets him up for a strong performance next Tuesday, when five other Northeastern states hold nominating contests that he expects to do well in.
