Clinton, the former secretary of state, won with the support of voters looking for a continuation of President Barack Obama’s policies. Bernie Sanders as the candidate who can beat Trump. Polls opened at 6 a.m.in some areas while they opened at noon in others, and results in all areas include those voting through the mid-afternoon.
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Both the NY primaries are closed primaries – meaning to vote in the Democrat primary you must be registered as a Democrat, and to vote in the Republican primary you must be registered as a Republican.
The Manhattan billionaire leads Kasich by more than 30 points and Cruz by 35 in the latest RealClearPolitics average of several recent ny primary polls.
The number of delegates needed to win the Republican nomination is 1,237. “I think he won’t do very well, and I think any New Yorker that votes for him would be maybe not a New Yorker”. “In fact, I actually voted by absentee ballot for John Kasich”.
“They’re going nuts out there, they’re angry”, Trump said in Syracuse.
In upstate NY, where I reside, the Quinnipiac polls put Cruz at 26 percent, Kasich at 22 percent and Trump at 47 percent.
“I mean the whole thing’s a big pay-off, has nothing to do with democracy”, he added. More than half of his supporters said they wouldn’t vote for Cruz in the general election, and over two-thirds said the same of Trump. But Sanders was more likely to be seen as honest.
“It should be a monumentally magnificent convention, and it should be brilliant staged, but they’re spending $50 million on security”, he said in the interview.
Close to 6 in 10 Democratic primary voters say Clinton would do the best job handling gun policy.
54 of the Commonwealth’s 71 delegates to the Republican National Convention will be directly elected (their names appear on the ballot) in a LOOPHOLE type primary, in which delegates are elected separately from a presidential preference.
State representative Carlos Trujillo is now a GOP convention delegate and admitted to 7News that he is excited for the possibility of a contested convention.
Trump is polling high in the Empire State and with 95 delegates at stake could come away with a welcome win after a few tough weeks.
How many delegates do they need to win the nomination and how many delegates are left?
He said frontrunner Donald Trump needs to show “he has some comprehension of what’s going on in the world” and that he’s “not just the guy at the end of the bar, throwing in remarks”.
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But who they will choose as the GOP nominee could be a bit of a free-for-all.
