HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) – Hillary Clinton is looking to a series of contests in northeastern states on Tuesday to solidify what’s rapidly becoming a almost unstoppable march to the Democratic presidential nomination. “He should show them, and run as an independent”, Trump tweeted Tuesday.
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“I think the African-American vote is so big in NY, especially in Brooklyn”, Andrews says.
Trump, however, described India as a great place, asserting that he is not angry with Indian leaders.
He claimed that “80% of poor people did not vote” in 2014 elections. The only thing Sanders will have to decide at that point will be the way in which he chooses to go. On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is leading Vermont Sen.
Clinton, emerging stronger after a triumph in last week’s NY primary, stood to effectively lock up the nomination on Tuesday.
The Republican front-runner and most of his rivals in both parties were out campaigning Saturday across the quintet of Northeastern states holding primaries on Tuesday – Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Rhode Island and CT. This group supports Sanders over Clinton, 55 percent to 38 percent.
“I think we have a shot in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island”. He is followed by Senator Ted Cruz from Texas with 559 delegates and Governor John Kasich with just 148 delegates.
With more than 300 delegates up for grabs on Tuesday, big Clinton wins could help solidify her lead and make it even more hard for Sanders to claim a path to the nomination.
Asked Monday whether she needed to do more to gain Sanders’ support in the general election, she noted her loss in the 2008 Democratic primaries to Barack Obama.
Clinton said at a campaign event in Pennsylvania she would not respond to Trump’s comments about her. But he says that he’d “have to believe her actions would be quite different than her rhetoric”.
Both Cruz and Kasich’s campaigns released statements Sunday saying that Cruz will focus his campaign resources on winning enough delegates in IN, while Kasich will focus his efforts on western states including OR and New Mexico.
“Clinton leads among African Americans (67% to 29%), those ages 45 and older (66% to 28%), women (62% to 34%), self-identified Democrats (60% to 36%) and those strongly supporting a candidate (59% to 41%)”.
Trump’s win in his home state of NY on Tuesday bolstered his chances for the Republican presidential nomination, prompting a more serious study of his prospects in the general election.
That puts Sanders’ total state delegate count at 436 to Clinton’s 103.
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Mexico’s new ambassador to the United States, Carlos Sada, vowed on Thursday to combat negative publicity in the US campaign after Trump accused Mexico of sending drug traffickers and rapists into the United States and vowed to build a wall at the border.
