Clinton also won in NY, which she once represented in the US Senate, blunting the momentum of rival Bernie Sanders and taking a big step towards wrapping up the nomination.
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Trump is trying to convince his party that if he comes close he should be awarded the nomination for President anyway-and avoid a messy nominating contest at the Party’s convention in July.
Over three days, members discussed plans for the upcoming convention, debated privately about the faults and merits of the three remaining presidential candidates and listened to presentations from campaigns for why they would be the best contenders to win the general election in November. Blocks away, he walked into his election night party in the lobby of Trump Tower, his New York skyscraper where he launched his presidential bid to such ridicule, to Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York and the words “king of the hill/top of the heap” blasting over the speakers. Should he win IN, however, it would all but end the hopes of Ted Cruz, a Texas senator, and John Kasich, the OH governor, of being able to take Trump to a contested convention.
“Today you proved once again there’s no place like home”, said the 68-year-old candidate looking to make history as the first woman president of the United States. He’s still way behind former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton among likely Pennsylvania Democratic voters, according to a Franklin & Marshall College poll released Wednesday. “I will beat Hillary!”
According to the New Haven mayor, Bernie Sanders’ campaign has reached out to the city about setting up a rally in the city, but nothing has been scheduled.
” … the sturdy opposition to (Trump’s) candidacy within the party and his own organizational deficiencies have hampered him at the state and local level, where a byzantine process is underway to elect delegates to the Republican convention in Cleveland this summer”, wrote Jonathan Martin on Wednesday.
But Sanders continued to claim in fundraising memos they could still win. “If she can get the necessary delegates – which I think she will – to get the nomination, I’m not sure what the objective of continuing to fight would be”.
The problem: His next win by such a wide margin over Clinton in such a state would be his first.
The Sanders campaign knows a tough battle awaits in those five states and says it will reassess its campaign after Tuesday.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump emerged as clear front-runners following Tuesday’s primary in NY.
“Senator Ted Cruz has dominated that esoteric inside game until now”.
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Clinton said at an event on Friday in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, that she would not respond to Trump’s comments about her. Kornacki said that Trump will need to pick up at least 100 of the 118 delegates in play on that day, which looks to be easily attainable for the Manhattan billionaire. It’s the other part of the ballot he is far more interested in.
