By the numbers, 1,037,344 people voted for Clinton – nearly exactly twice as many as the 518,601 who voted for Republican and native New Yorker Donald Trump.
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Later in the speech, Trump told the crowd, “I’m about 300 delegates ahead of Lyin’ Ted”, arguing that Cruz is attempting to claim the Republican nomination through a “rigged, crooked system that’s designed so that the bosses can pick whoever they want”.
Cruz panned Trump’s win in NY as little more than “a politician winning his home state”, then implored Republicans to unite around his candidacy.
The Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday shows Trump at 49 percent, with 28 percent for Ohio Gov. John Kasich and 19 percent for Texas Sen.
After blasting the Republican electoral process as “rigged”, Trump said, “the people aren’t going to stand” for a contested convention that hands the nomination to someone trailing in the delegate count. Kasich is mathematically out of the delegate race, needing 158 percent of the delegates.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump cast further doubts on the viability of their competitors Tuesday by handily winning primaries in NY state.
For her part, Mrs Clinton all but declared victory in the Democratic primaries, telling raucous NY supporters that the race for the nomination “is in the home stretch and victory is in sight”.
The number needed to win the Democratic nomination is 2,383.
Ted Cruz, on Tuesday night in New York City following his crushing primary victory in the Empire State.
Clinton now has 1,428 delegates from the primary elections and another 502 super delegates, who are mainly party officials, have pledged their support to her.
Republican hopeful Mr Cruz, whose criticism of “New York values” attracted scorn in the state, had also moved on to Pennsylvania.
Of the 247 Democratic delegates at stake in New York, Clinton picked up at least 129 while Sanders gained at least 98.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis, Indiana April 20, 2016.
“Virtually the entire New York Democratic establishment is standing with her”, he said. She lost only one NY county to Obama: Tompkins, home to Ithaca and Cornell University. But the billionaire may not have enough delegates to win the nomination outright. Even before NY, it was an incredibly hard task; the Vermont senator needed 68 percent of remaining delegates to mount a challenge.
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Clinton spent her final hours of campaigning in NY trying to drive up turnout among women and minorities, her most-ardent supporters.
