Trump similarly dominated Tuesday’s contests on the Republican side, winning virtually all the delegates that were up for grabs in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Voters there expressed their choices for their party’s candidate for president.
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If Clinton manages to win big Tuesday, she will be able to put even more distance between herself and her rival Vermont Sen.
At a primary night event in Philadelphia on Tuesday night, Clinton celebrated her projected wins.
So far only CT remains too close to call between Sanders and Clinton. I think because of the strength of the Democratic Party establishment. Her challenger, Bernie Sanders, told the Associated Press he has a “very narrow path and we are going to have to win some big victories”.
Donald Trump has said the race for the Republican presidential nomination is “over” after romping to victory in five state primaries.
Trump now has 950 delegates, which means he has 75 percent of the 1,237 delegates he needs to clinch the GOP nomination.
The five delegate-rich East Coast states, also including DE and Rhode Island, are important in both presidential nominating contests.
Mary Pat Christie, who is the first lady of New Jersey and is married to Chris Christie, a Republican governor who has endorsed Trump, summed up the world’s despair. “So it fits a trend that the Republican Party in CT does tend to look to and have the ability to self-finance as attractive candidates”.
“Three male delegates and two female delegates will get selected from the 5th District”, he said.
The Sanders campaign issued mixed messages earlier Tuesday about what its strategy would be following Tuesday’s results. Donald J. Trump is that candidate – and he tends to win decisively among anti-establishment voters.
Wednesday morning on ABC’s Good Morning America, Trump doubled down, and denied that it was a sexist statement, saying instead, “It’s true”.
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“I call her crooked Hillary, ” he said in a speech Tuesday in NY following his five-state sweep.
