Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said Mr Sanders faces a “close to impossible path to the nomination” and predicted NY would result in Mrs Clinton taking “an important step to the nomination”. Those people will vote for their pledged candidate at the party convention.
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Locally, a total of 25,659 Democrats and 24,934 Republicans are eligible to cast ballots in today in Chautauqua County.
Trump, meanwhile, is expected to gain a clean sweep after rival Ted Cruz denounced those “liberal NY values”. This week, hundreds of voters filed lawsuits calling on the state to open the primaries to all voters.
Only California has more than the 247 Democratic delegates and 44 superdelegates up for grabs in NY on Tuesday.
Bernie Sanders has the momentum but Hillary Clinton has the delegates, and that means NY voters could have a big impact on the Democratic primary race.
Republicans will see the three presidential candidates on their ballot, plus Ben Carson.
Sanders faces hard mathematical odds in overtaking Clinton in the delegate count, odds that will get even longer if he can’t pull off an upset victory in NY.
Mr Sanders needs to win 68% of the remaining delegates if he hopes to clinch the Democratic nomination.
It was a more controlled setting on Staten Island Sunday where a selected, diverse group of Hillary Clinton supporters stood on risers behind the former NY senator.
Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton voted at Grafflin after 8 a.m.
Hillary Clinton says she loves NY and “This has been a joy during the last two weeks to be here”. “Beyond the free college crowd, which makes up a considerable portion of Sanders supporters, are groups representing various socio-economic backgrounds who align under issues related to gun rights and the growing dissatisfaction of Establishment politics”.
Recent polling has Trump with a wide lead over the GOP field. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich are pinning their presidential dreams.
But Trump, all smiles for the cameras on election day in his home state, said his campaign’s reorganization is moving forward without a hitch.
Meanwhile, in the Democratic party, Sanders (46.3 per cent) has all but eliminated Clinton’s (47.7 per cent) primary polling lead, it said.
Like Trump and Cruz, who both have stops in IN this week, Kasich is looking ahead to the Hoosier state’s primary on May 3rd.
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Donald Trump is all but assured to win the New York Republican primary.
