Major delegate victories are at stake on Tuesday as voters in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island are holding primaries for both Democrats and Republicans, with 384 delegates at stake. Watch the tally at the end of the night: Clinton could emerge with 90 percent of the delegates needed to win the nomination. “We have done a good job bringing young people in”. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has 27 percent and John Kasich has 4 percent.
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“If you look at state polling, you’re behind in Pennsylvania, in Maryland and CT”. “We are here today competing in five states”.
Donald Trump can’t lock up the Republican nomination Tuesday, April 26, 2016 – but he can counter his two opponents’ divide-and-conquer strategy and reassert his dominance in the race by running the table in five states. “I’m not in that state right now, but I will be in other states and I will be at the convention, in a broken convention, trying to be president of the United States”, he said.
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The partnership “shows how weak they are”, Trump said. “It shows how pathetic they are”. He’s been leading in all the states that vote today, and a sweep of these five Mid-Atlantic and New England states will put him well on the way to crushing the hopes of the #NeverTrump movement.
Hillary Clinton is looking to a series of contests in northeastern states on Tuesday to solidify what’s rapidly becoming a almost unstoppable march to the Democratic presidential nomination. They added that “the part he’s been playing is now evolving” – meaning, it seems, he’s going to start sounding and acting something akin to a traditional politician, one who offers more policy profundity and fewer schoolyard insults. But his remarks suggested the alliance with Cruz was already fraying.
Still, state GOP rules do not bind those would-be delegates to what they tell the campaigns, or anyone else. “They ought to vote for me”. “What’s the big deal?” he said.
Sanders’s lack of any clear edge in states that play to his strengths is a big reason that his hopes of catching up to Clinton in delegates have becoming increasingly impossible. Cruz has mounted an especially sophisticated operation to fill delegate slates with sympathetic activists who could desert Trump in later rounds of voting in Cleveland should the billionaire fall short on the first ballot.
A USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll released Monday found four in 10 backers of Sanders weren’t sure whether they would vote for Clinton, while 13% of them said they’d vote for Trump instead. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) last week.
Cruz, perhaps emboldened by the prospect of stopping Trump, has already begun searching for possible vice presidential options.
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In an election year that has highlighted voter disaffection with politics as usual, a chaotic convention fight would nearly surely damage Republican prospects in November. Reporter: Busloads of Bernie supporters intent on crashing the party. “But since the two candidates with the best chance of receiving the Republican nomination are viewed even more unfavorably at this point than Secretary Clinton, there’s a good chance we are headed into an election where voters will see their choice as between the lesser of two unhappy options”.
