“I’m not going to respond to what he said about me”, the former secretary of state told her supporters at a restaurant in Pennsylvania, where both the Democratic and Republican primaries are scheduled for April 26. Donald Trump also won convincingly with over 60 percent of the vote, which nets him almost all of the 95 delegates at stake.
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And voters need to know the difference as, unlike some other states, the names of the presidential candidates each delegate is supporting will not be on the ballot.
Cox explained his neutrality in the primary, saying it was part of a strategy to make all three Republican contenders feel welcome to campaign in NY, and to make the state relevant in the GOP primary process.
In one radio ad, Cruz knocked New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, the liberal Democrat, who was among New York leaders who criticized Cruz for his “New York values” comment about Trump in a January debate.
New York GOP Chair Ed Cox had remained neutral throughout the presidential race, while one of Trump’s top allies continually criticized his leadership of the party.
All five of the states voting Tuesday – Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Rhode Island and CT – appear poised to hand Trump and Clinton big victories and added momentum for them after landslide victories in Tuesday’s NY primary. You can see this illustrated in the graph below (and also the previous discussion here), which compares Clinton’s 2008 and 2016 performances on a state-by-state basis.
Campaigning in Indiana, Trump railed against his party’s leadership, even as his senior lieutenants courted Republican officials behind closed doors in Florida.
Clinton will say anything to get elected. Younger voters are a critical voting block and source of financing should she win the Democratic nomination for the November 8 presidential election.
One of them was Reading, where a boisterous crowd greeted the Vermont senator inside a packed theatre downtown.
Jeff Sessions speaks at Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Mobile, Ala.
Sanders touched on the major themes of his campaign – income inequality, Wall Street corruption, and fixing what he says is the nation’s broken economy.
Pennsylvania’s Republican primary is unique in its rules and how it awards its delegates.
In order to land on the ballot, pledged delegates had to submit petitions with 500 signatures or at least 0.5 percent of registered Democrats, whichever is less, by February 4, according to the Board of Elections.
– Maryland: Terrapin country could hand Clinton her biggest victory of the night. Aggregates of polling in the three larger states on the RealClearPolitics website show Clinton substantially leading Sanders in all three.
Different campaigns run the delegate math differently, presenting different strategies for winning – or keeping someone else from winning, as is the case in the Republican primary.
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Vice President Joe Biden cast his vote in the Delaware Democratic primary Friday but stayed quiet on which candidate he voted for as his party’s nominee. FiveThirtyEight’s panel estimates he could win 93 of the 172 delegates in California on June 7.
