In Tuesday’s “Acela Primary”, Donald Trump won the Republican presidential primaries in all five states – Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island and Maryland.
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The former secretary of state had an nearly insurmountable lead of 275 pledged delegates heading into Tuesday’s contests, and Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid told reporters he did not think Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, had a realistic path to winning the nomination.
Sanders, in an interview with The Associated Press, conceded he has a “very narrow path and we’re going to have to win some big victories”. “She does not has the strength and stamina” to be the president of the United States (US) and successfully handle countries like China, Japan and Mexico, he said.
“It’s over. As far as I’m concerned it’s over”, he said. I said it is a good thing. “I hope that we will see the same this year”.
Sanders said he has no plans to stop his attacks on Clinton.
A “presumptive nominee” is one who has all but been officially crowned a nominee, and is most certainly going to be sooner than later.
In Pennsylvania, Trump collected 17 delegates for winning the state. Yet despite Trump’s decisive win there, he could still be tripped up by the state’s byzantine rules for awarding Republican delegates.
But, she added, focusing on Sanders: “We’re going to come back to Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention with the most votes and the most pledged delegates”. Ted Cruz had 559 and Ohio Gov. John Kasich held 148.
As Trump spoke, networks made the final call-giving Clinton a victory over Sanders in CT.
With 384 delegates at stake, Clinton will win at least 190. The next crucial primary is scheduled in IN next Tuesday where Cruz and Trump have entered into a strategic alliance to prevent Trump from getting the required delegates.
Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, a Trump supporter, said the deal between Kasich and Cruz would backfire because it smacked of backroom politics.
Cruz called the partnership “big news” as he campaigned in IN on Monday.
Trump panned his rivals’ strategy as “pathetic”.
“If you collude in business, or if you collude in the stock market, they put you in jail”, Trump said as he campaigned in Rhode Island. A sweep by the he controversial real estate mogul would severely dampen the hopes of the #NeverTrump movement.
The next big nominating contest for both parties is IN, next Tuesday.
Trump will win the Pennsylvania GOP primary, based on exit polls.
The always complicated science of delegate allocation will be even more arcane than usual because of Pennsylvania’s one-of-a-kind system, where 54 of the state’s 71 delegates are unbound. However, their names are listed on the ballot with no information about which presidential candidate they support.
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On the Democratic side, Clinton has more than 90 percent of the delegates needed to win the party’s nomination.
