Both men were convincingly defeated in New York’s primaries Tuesday, with Sanders losing to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by 16 percentage points, while Cruz fell a full 46 points behind frontrunner Donald Trump.
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Television channels including CNN, Fox News and MSNBC projected the Manhattan billionaire the victor in the primary seconds after the polls closed.
On the Democrat side, Bernie Sanders trailed behind Clinton by 33 delegates while John Kasich only received three of New York’s delegates.
Gov. Scott Walker said at a news conference in Wauwatosa Wednesday he will support the Republican Party’s nomination for president, despite previous wrangling with GOP front-runner Donald Trump.
Tuesday’s voting in the NY primary was marked by chaos, particularly in Brooklyn, as tens of thousands of voters found their names had been removed from the polling rolls or that they were unable to vote at their polling station.
“We are on a path to” winning the GOP nomination, Cruz continued, despite his third-place finish in the Empire State. Cruz did not win any, prompting Trump adviser Sarah Huckabee Sanders to urge him on CNN on Wednesday to “get out of the way” once the maths of delegate counts makes it impossible for him to prevail. But Cruz was never well-suited for the state anyway, and the whole “New York values” thing didn’t help him either.
You won’t hear any of those complaints because Donald won in NY. Cruz did not win any delegates. It takes 2,383 to win the Democratic nomination.
Now that the results have been finalized, one can see how each and every Brooklyn neighborhood voted block by block with an interactive map from The New York Times.
Trump has won 47 percent of the delegates awarded so far.
For Democrats, Hillary Clinton has continued to extend her lead in pledged delegates over Bernie Sanders, even before factoring in the much-discussed Super Delegates.
“We are headed to a contested convention”, Cruz said in an interview with Philadelphia talk-radio personality Chris Stigall this morning. Kasich is mathematically out of the delegate race, needing 158 percent of the delegates. “We’re gonna go into the convention, I think, as the victor”.
Clinton has the support of 52% of likely Democratic primary voters in the Keystone State while Sanders’s support stands at 39%.
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Trump got about 525,000 votes in NY and got 91 delegates, while Cruz drew about 531,000 votes in Wisconsin and won 36 delegates, he said.
