One unique feature of New York’s primary: Three of the remaining five presidential candidates have lived in the state – and they’re fond of reminding voters of it. The Democratic race was closer as of Monday with the same eight major polls giving Clinton an average lead of 12 percentage points over Sanders.
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Among Democrats, Clinton has accumulated 1,758 delegates to Sanders’ 1,076. But their rivals will try to turn pockets of support across the state into at least some delegate victories.
A Fox News Channel poll found that Clinton dropped 11 points among female voters over the last month, while Sanders gained 9 points nationally.
But there is a lot at stake for both parties in the Empire State, so grab a knish and an egg cream (or, if you are watching the upstate vote, Buffalo wings and a Genesee Cream Ale) and settle in.
Trump needs to win most of the 95 delegates NY will send to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July if he is to get the 1,237 he needs for a first-ballot victory. Ted Cruz. Cruz and Kasich hope to keep Trump below 50 percent in the congressional districts to keep him from sweeping the delegates. If a candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote in a given district, they take all three delegates. Otherwise, Trump would sweep. “But it’s nowhere near Trump”.
It’s presidential primary day for registered Democrats and Republicans across NY state. Trump, the brash Manhattan billionaire whose controversial campaign has appalled the Republican establishment, is streets ahead of his evangelical rival Texas Sen. The backlash on that isn’t helping Cruz as he looks to compete with Trump, a native New Yorker.
Brock said he is a military veteran who was a big supporter of the first President George Bush “because he brought so many of my friends home from Desert Shield-Desert Storm alive”. “And it’s a shame”, Trump said of Cruz.
Compare that to his recent campaign rhetoric.
For Kasich, he could find some support in suburban areas just outside New York City and in Western New York.
And how will Trump perform in Queens, where the brash Manhattan/Floridian was raised? Kasich could play a spoiler role here if he can pick up about 15 of the state’s delegates. “We all have to get out there and vote”.
Reynolds also predicted that some Downstate metro counties could be good for Kasich, like Westchester, Orange and Rockland in the 17th and 18th districts.
For Trump, New York is an opportunity to rebound from a trying stretch for his campaign – and with an exclamation point.
Trump badly needs a sweeping win in NY – if Ted Cruz peels away a significant number of delegates, it will become that much more hard for Trump to outright clinch the GOP nomination ahead of this summer’s Republican convention.
How many delegates are needed to win the nomination?
Now, every Democratic contest has to allocate its delegates proportionally.
Bernie Sanders ratchets up the rhetoric on the eve of NY primary. It’s a closed primary, too, which gives Clinton a big advantage.
“I mean, she just is such a Charlie Brown figure”.
“It’s bad NY state election law”. She’s itching to leave Sanders behind and get on to the main event.
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Not to be outdone, Trump is expected to squeeze in a second and possibly a third visit to the state after making his CT debut Friday night in Hartford. Though she hit Sanders on guns, abortion and his ability to implement his campaign promises, she focused more on retail campaigning during her time in New York City. The other 40 were awarded according to results in individual congressional districts.
