Hillary Clinton was projected to win handily in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in NY, holding off an unexpectedly fierce challenge from Bernie Sanders to her grip on the Democratic party’s nomination. But Trump didn’t suffer any negative consequences in NY because of his failure in Wisconsin. But raw vote totals didn’t tell the whole story, thanks to New York’s complex formula for allocating GOP delegates. Bernie Sanders, 51 percent to 42 percent, among likely Democratic primary voters. Cruz is at 559 delegates, a count that means he must rely on a contested convention to win the Republican nomination.
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Mr. Trump was at 48 percent support in the Quinnipiac poll, ahead of Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 28 percent and Sen.
A Democratic candidate needs 2,383 delegates to secure the nomination.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he arrives to speak at a NY primary night campaign event, Tuesday, April 19, 2016, in NY.
It was a great night for Donald Trump. “We’re gonna go into the convention, I think, as the victor”.
Exit polls conducted for The Associated Press and television networks by Edison Research found a majority of GOP voters say the candidate with the most votes going into the convention should be the party’s presidential nominee. The race for the Democratic nomination is in the home stretch and victory is in sight’. The sense of belonging needed to get voters on side was there automatically for Trump in his home state and also for Hillary as New York’s former senator.
Previously in the day, Sanders had criticised New York’s primary rules, which require voters to register their party affiliation up to six months before the election.
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Trump has alienated many Republican Jews by saying at times that he would remain neutral in brokering Israeli-Palestinian peace, and also with his broadsides against minorities, including Hispanics and Muslims. Latest polls indicates that Trump is leading in most of these states. Clinton was scheduled to spend Wednesday campaigning in Pennsylvania, while Trump had a rally planned in Maryland, as well as Indiana. But, you know, Trump is benefiting from that – both of them staying in like that. Women back Clinton 55% to 38%, but men give Sanders the edge by 50% to 45%.
