Understandably, each exulted in their triumph.
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“As much as people have made out this race between Clinton and Sanders to be an ideological death match, Donald Trump will do more to bring the Democratic Party together than anyone has ever done”, he said.
“We’re gonna have to win a lot of states and a lot of delegates”, said Sanders’ Senior Campaign Advisor, Tad Devine.
A Republican candidate needs 1,237 delegates to clinch the nomination. “There’s nothing nefarious about the Republican wing of the Republican Party asserting itself”.
Trump may be making an appealing but flawed case when he argues, as he did in his victory speech Tuesday, that “it’s a crooked system, it’s a system that’s rigged”.
Speaking at a town-hall event on NBC’s “Today” show Thursday, Trump said North Carolina’s bathroom law has caused unnecessary strife and transgender people should be able to choose which bathroom to use.
In the coming days, Sanders will face hard questions about the rationale for his campaign and challenges about whether his candidacy, which took on an increasingly shrill tone in NY, may be hurting the Democrats’ prospects in the general election. Kasich’s weak second place in NY and Cruz’s recent victories have left both of them possible candidates, should the Republican Convention move to multiple rounds of voting.
Sanders decamped to his home in Vermont but planned to campaign in Pennsylvania on Thursday and Friday. If no candidate wins 1,237 by the end of primary season in June, the GOP nominee is determined through a contested convention.
Other names linked to Trump include former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, a Trump adviser, and Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon and former presidential candidate.
Trump won 45.6 percent of the vote in Onondaga County, according to The New York Times. Clinton too leadsagainst her sole Democratic presidential rivalBernie Sanders in Maryland primary.
Both the Clinton and Trump campaigns refused to comment on the vice-presidential speculation, saying they remain focused on winning their respective nominating contests.
“The chairman’s view is that the rules of the convention should be set by the delegates, by the grassroots Republican voters”, Spicer said.
But that number would more than likely be enough to get him over the top in the convention, according to Kornacki. At this point, it would be tough for Hillary Clinton to lose…
For now, that plan leaves out LePage, who’s running alongside his wife, Ann, to be a Trump delegate.
Trump’s Pennsylvania lead is around 20 points.
Sanders would recapture some momentum with such an unexpected big-state win, but he can’t escape the fact that Democrats award delegates in proportion to the vote.
“Values forged in NY”, one Sanders’ ad said.
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Trump’s campaign believes that the billionaire will win 1,400 delegates at the convention, according to an internal campaign memo obtained by The Washington Post.
