But there has been some frustration over New York’s strict rules governing the vote, particularly among independent voters not allowed to participate and who in other states have tended to favor Sanders.
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Sanders decamped to his home in Vermont but planned to campaign in Pennsylvania on Thursday and Friday. Clinton clinched at least 175 out of 291 NY delegates, while Sanders won at least 106, according to the AP.
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Nevertheless, a decisive win in NY on Tuesday boosted Trump’s delegate tally.
Clinton got 71,000 votes in Nassau, beating Sanders by 25 points.
Clinton’s winning margin over Obama in 2008 was 17 percentage points.
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”.
Voters cast about 400,000 ballots in the Republican and Democratic primaries on Long Island Tuesday. For the GOP primary, turnout was 31 percent in Suffolk and 30 percent in Nassau.
He had a shocker in New York, which probably comes as little surprise after his “New York Values” comment in a debate back in January continued to haunt him in the Empire State. Barack Obama in 2008 drew turnouts of 37 percent in Nassau and 32 percent in Suffolk.
Still, about 7 in 10 New York Republicans said the candidate with the most votes in primary contests should be the Republican presidential nominee. John McCain won the GOP nomination, was 20 percent in Nassau and 19 percent in Suffolk. The presidential hopeful and former secretary of state had locked up NY and, with it, built what appears to be a almost insurmountable delegate lead in the race for the 2016 nomination.
Gun control has been a major issue in the Democratic primary, with Clinton hitting Sanders over what she says is a more lax position on regulating firearms.
The Sanders campaign contends that if he can close the gap with Clinton among delegates chosen in primaries and caucuses, the superdelegates will flock to his side to avoid overturning the will of the party’s voters.
Trump, a one-time television reality show host who has never held elective office, needs to claim about 53 percent of the remaining delegates yet to be chosen in the 15 states where elections are scheduled through early June to clinch the nomination ahead of the quadrennial national convention, while Cruz would have to win 92 percent of the unclaimed delegates. Trump lost only 12 of Suffolk’s 1,052 election districts.
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He left NY before the polls closed, turning his attention to Pennsylvania, where he delivered a speech calling on Americans to join together to move the country forward.
