Front-runners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are expected to win big in Tuesday’s presidential primaries in five northeastern states, polls show.
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The differences between upstate and downstate NY were glaringly obvious in the NY primary, as 49 of 62 counties decided upon Sanders to be their Democratic nominee, but their voices were drowned out by the voters of downstate New York’s 10 counties.
“But, it is again, a two-way street”, Sanders said.
“The only thing she’s got going is the women card”, Trump said in the excerpts released by the network on Friday. The Republican Party establishment is trying to find ways to trip Trump, but they are handicapped by the dislike for even second-placed Cruz.
Cruz lost in NY to Ohio Governor John Kasich, who received four delegates, and billionaire Donald Trump, who received 89 delegates.
Candidates need at least 1,237 delegates to win the nomination.
Cruz only mentioned New York once in his speech, greeting the crowd with, “God Bless New York, and God Bless the people of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania!”
He later said, “Donald has had great difficulty winning west of the Mississippi River”.
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a campaign event in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S., April 21, 2016.
Just over $75 million was raised by Sanders through December 31, 2015, which was significantly less than the more than $115 million that Hillary Clinton raised through the same amount of time, according to a report by the FEC.
In the NBC interview, portions of which were broadcast on “Nightly News” on Thursday, Sanders said that his path to the nomination is “not unrealistic” but added: “It’s a hard path. I admit that”.
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Trump has also accused Cruz of stealing delegates unbound to a candidate. A USA senator from Vermont, Sanders has vowed to fight until the Democrats’ nominating convention in Philadelphia starting on July 25. Sanders’s aides argue that they are all still in play, however, since they do not cast a vote for the nominee until the convention.
