Ohio Gov. John Kasich, the only other Republican left in the race, picked up at least three NY delegates but still has only one primary win his home state.
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For Richard Flanagan, a political science professor at the College of Staten Island, Trump’s victory on the Island is a sign that an outsider status is appealing here and marching orders from the party matters less than elsewhere. He appeared especially troubled by the results in Colorado, where Cruz swept all of the delegates there at the state’s Republican Party convention.
Speaking to supporters Tuesday night in Manhattan, Trump delivered a victory speech that was notably shorter and more subdued than previous election-night remarks.
Trump’s commanding victory in NY, where he won more than 60% of the vote and the vast majority of the 95 delegates up for grabs, marked a turning point in the delegate race.
A fixture on CNN in recent weeks as an unofficial spokesman for the Trump campaign, Borelli said Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, has no mathematical path to getting the nomination through primary voting. “Senator Cruz is just about mathematically eliminated”.
The win by Clinton, 68, makes it almost impossible for Sanders, 74, to overtake her commanding lead in delegates needed to secure the nomination.
Trump highlighted Cruz’s mathematical elimination from the 1,237 level Wednesday.
Cruz, 45, came in third in NY.
Councilman Joe Borelli (R-South Shore) is a co-chairman of Trump’s NY campaign, and sees the candidate’s win by a large margin as further evidence that voters are fed up.
By Monday, Cruz had abandoned the state and was campaigning in Maryland ahead of that state’s primary next week.
Kasich represented Trump’s main challenger in NY, though he stood no chance of carrying the state.
Rather, his strategy was to pick off scattered delegates in a handful of friendlier congressional districts, including those on either side of Central Park, where the relatively few Republicans in Democratic New York City tend toward greater moderation than the typical member of the GOP.
Sensing that something had to change, Trump shook up his operations, bringing on veteran GOP consultant Paul Manafort to serve as convention manager.
Dee Ann Boyd, 54, who lives in Midtown Manhattan and directs a nonprofit organization, said she voted for Kasich. She considers Trump “dangerous” and decided against Cruz.
Trump had been counting on strong support upstate where, he has said, “I’m like the most popular person that’s ever lived”.
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“I think there ought to be a debate before the vote next Tuesday”, Cruz told reporters in Florida today.
