Maybe this is why Sanders is doubling-down on the provocative rhetoric in NY. While the Republican party is facing the very real chance that none of its candidates will have the necessary number of delegates to take the nomination, Clinton is confident that she will have the required number by the Democratic convention. Cruz is trying to block Trump from receiving enough delegates to win the nomination outright, which would lead to a contested convention in July.
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Clinton’s support appears to be broad based throughout the Empire State, with about 50% support in Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, as well as the suburbs of Nassau and Westchester counties and upstate NY.
The 30-second spot is set to air in NY, a state that both candidates are leading their respective parties in.
He and Clinton found a rare point of agreement in poking back at Cruz for his earlier criticism of “New York values”. Democratic Party rules left each candidate with seven of Wyoming’s 14 delegates.
The New York Fox News poll is the third published recently that shows Trump poised to cross the 50% statewide threshold needed to capture all of New York’s statewide Republican delegates. “If she’s winning the nomination, I want you to vote for her in November of course, but we gotta win”, Bill Clinton said.
Historically, Hillary Clinton has done very well among minority voters, particularly African-American voters who have been loyal to the Clintons since her husband’s time as president. That is why Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders celebrated last Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary win in Laramie.
Phillip Wallach, a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution, said that it does “certainly feel like Clinton is on her heels”, but he doesn’t think it will last.
But Sanders said future contests in the West and on the East Coast looked favorable to him, including New York, Pennsylvania, California and Oregon.
Clinton said: “This is not, ‘Oh, I live in a rural state, we don’t have any of those problems.’ You know what, it’s easy to cross borders”.
Bernie Sanders spoke at the Apollo Theater in Harlem on Friday.
Fourteen of the delegates are determined by the preference poll, while the remainder are superdelegates not tied to any candidate, two party leaders and two national committee members.
“Bernie started out with really low numbers and because of us he’s going to be our president”, she said. “We’re looking forward to NY and other states as well”.
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“I think this has all been pretty silly”, Clinton told reporters at a campaign stop in Buffalo, in upstate NY.
