Republican front-runner Donald Trump won presidential primaries in five U.S. states that voted on Tuesday, while Hillary Clinton triumphed in four, media reports said on Wednesday.
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Trump is projected to win primaries in all five states – Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania – sweeping 99 of 118 delegates at stake, dealing major blows to Texas Senator Ted Cruz and Ohio Governor John Kasich, amid debate over their alliance against the real estate mogul.
Earlier in the evening, Clinton took Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and DE, while Sanders won Rhode Island.
Sanders won one state, Rhode Island; he still faces long mathematical odds, but looked ahead to May and June contests.
Republican front-runner Donald Trump has said Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton is playing the “woman card” to try to get elected president.
Donald Trump has said the race for the Republican presidential nomination is “over” after romping to victory in five state primaries.
Celebrating several key wins Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton is looking to the Democratic convention, telling a crowd of more than 1,300 people in the host city of Philadelphia that she’ll be back. Clinton, meanwhile, is now 90 percent of the way to her party’s nomination after four solid victories of her own.
The Republican race now turns to IN, where next week’s primary marks one of Cruz’s last chances to slow Trump and push the race toward a contested convention.
Sanders new goal is to go to the convention with as many delegates as possible to nail down his progressive planks onto the Democratic platform. Sanders, on the other hand, has 1,321 delegates.
Clinton, in a victory speech in Philadelphia, took aim at Trump for accusing her of trying to “play the woman card”. “Sanders or you support me, there’s much more that unites us than divides us”, she said.
Already, Clinton can lose every remaining primary by a wide margin and still capture her party’s nomination, according to an Associated Press analysis.
Cruz spent Tuesday in IN, where Kasich’s campaign has withdrawn in an attempt to give the Texas senator a clear path.
Sanders pointed to his campaign’s success coming from relative obscurity to seriously challenge the Clinton juggernaut.
Despite polls showing them unlikely to win Maryland, all three candidates campaigned in the state last week in hopes of picking up at least a few of the state’s proportionally allotted delegates.
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won big in the Acela primary. Haas and McClure have stated they would support the candidate who won the district, while Klein said he would be supporting Trump at this year’s national convention. In Pennsylvania, exit polls showed almost four in 10 Republican voters said they would be excited by Mr Trump becoming president, but a quarter said they were scared by the prospect.
