Mrs Clinton’s decisive victory ended a string of wins by Mr Sanders and gave her more delegates than her advisers expected.
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Campaigning in Indiana, Trump railed against his party’s leadership, even as his senior lieutenants courted Republican officials behind closed doors in Florida.
A US senator from Vermont, Sanders has vowed to fight until the Democrats’ nominating convention in Philadelphia starting on July 25.
Manafort also insisted that Trump is prepared to work closely with party leaders, despite the candidate’s near-daily public attacks on what he calls “a rigged” presidential nomination system. But the question remains whether a decisive lead short of the majority that the rules require is sufficient to win the nomination. Ohio Governor John Kasich, 63, a long-shot candidate, sought to use his second-place showing in NY as proof he is emerging as Trump’s central challenger.
Trump trounced his opposition, collecting 60 percent of the Republican primary vote and 89 delegates.
Mr Cruz criticised this as politically correct but former 106 candidate Ben Carson praised Mr Trump for “trying to moderate”. He then pointed to OR and some smaller Western states where Sanders is likely to win, along with IN and New Jersey, where Sanders’ chances are dimmer. Aggregates of polling in the three larger states on the RealClearPolitics website show Clinton substantially leading Sanders in all three.
Hundreds of supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders lined up early today outside the Scranton Cultural Center where he is scheduled to speak at noon.
“To all the people who supported senator Sanders: I believe there is much more that unites us than divides us”, she said on Tuesday night. “It was record-setting, and it’s New York”, Trump said.
Donald Trump has set his sights on the White House.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday, Mr. Cruz acknowledged that Mr. Trump could pick up additional wins next week, but said the terrain would get more hard for the billionaire businessman after that. In a victory speech in the lobby of Trump Tower, Trump said Cruz was “just about mathematically eliminated”. They like Clinton better than they do the Republicans too, however. Clinton only increased her delegate lead by about 30 in the crucial category of pledged delegates. Political professionals often play down the impact of the youth vote; the rate of young people who cast ballots is customarily relatively low.
Well, they could always try to subvert democracy.
For her part, Clinton did almost as well as Trump in percentage terms with 58 percent, while she outpolled Trump in the raw vote by nearly half a million. He plans to return to the campaign trail in Pennsylvania on Thursday.
Clinton defeated Sen. Barack Obama in Pennsylvania eight years ago, and her husband carried the state both in 1992 and in 1996. Trump’s winning big in Pennsylvania. Both front-runners are well positioned in DE and Maryland, which also vote next Tuesday. About 10 percent of NY state’s population is reckoned to be Jewish, while the number hovers around 3-4 percent in the other Eastern states.
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Cruz, 45, came in third in NY. Weaver pointed to California first, saying, “a big win there would get you lots of delegates”. And Sanders? National polls still show him within striking distance of Clinton.
