“Our projections call for us to accumulate over 1400 delegates and thus a first ballot nomination win in Cleveland”.
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“Thank you, New York”, Clinton told supporters at her victory party Tuesday night.
This is a curious decision by Sanders, whose race with Clinton appears to be becoming more of a vendetta for him against her personally rather than making the strategic moves needed to ensure the issues he fights for aren’t swallowed whole by a Trump presidency. Trump remains 393 delegates short of securing the nomination.
A new poll finds Donald Trump has expanded his lead over Republican challengers in the Pennsylvania primary election on April 26.
His chief rival, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich. They are being taken out of country. That is followed by a May 3 contest in Indiana.
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. With trademark sarcasm, he played down Trump’s win, saying the mogul hoped to convince people that “Pennsylvania is a suburb of Manhattan”.
“Donald, with a characteristic display of humility, declared this race is over”, Cruz said.
Republican Party officials and political operatives say they expect an onslaught of delegate persuasion to begin in earnest after the election. Republicans need 1,237 delegates to win their party’s nomination.
The Ted Cruz campaign is out with a new attack ad imagining Hillary Clinton and her inner circle sizing up her Republican competition and fretting over how they will ever stop Cruz. Less than 4 in 10 GOP voters say they’ve been energized, exit polls show, compared with two-thirds of Democratic voters who say that about their side. This group of contests offers Sanders one of the last chances on the election calendar to gain ground in pledged delegates and make a broader case to superdelegates to support him.
Sanders decamped to his home in Vermont but planned to campaign in Pennsylvania on Thursday and Friday. Trump is seen by some as a threat to the GOP’s very existence.
Meanwhile, Trump tops Kasich among men 51 percent to 27 percent and holds a similar lead of 45 percent 30 percent among females.
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Assuming that NY has indeed made the nomination races irreversible, Democrats will have a popular runner-up who resonates with a substantial segment of their base, to be cajoled and won over. “From Wisconsin on, it’s been more about the delegate battle, and Cruz has really invested in that process”.
