While making his case for a general election victory, Trump slammed Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton, claiming she was only successful because she was a woman.
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Trump won all five of the delegate-rich GOP primaries in Connecticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Rhode Island.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s over”, Donald Trump declared after overwhelming victories that exceeded expectations in Republican primaries in five states in the northeast on Tuesday.
“I think she’s a flawed candidate and she’s going to be easy to beat”, Trump told a news conference at New York’s Trump Tower. “The only thing she’s got going is the woman’s card”.
“Whether you support Senator Sanders or you support me, there’s much more that unites us than divides us”.
But Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is projected to win Rhode Island, and is leading Clinton in neighboring CT. But Trump is going to have a delegate lead no matter what happens, so the race from here to the convention is still for the best alternative to Trump.
An anti-Trump group called #NeverTrump formed by establishment Republicans said Trump’s path to getting the 1,237 delegates he needs for the nomination remained narrow.
Still, Sanders was adamant that the “hundreds” of staff cuts did not constitute the demise of his 2016 presidential aspirations, seemingly dismissing Tuesday’s primary results and insisting he and the remainder of his staff are focused on the states still to vote. The former won in Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland and Pennsylvania, while the latter prevailed in all five states, surpassing Texas Sen.
“Clinton has had a good team here for months, and support for Bernie is more recent”, Beyer said.
His rivals, Ted Cruz and John Kasich, announced an agreement earlier this week to divvy up several states that hold primaries in May as a way of denying Trump the ability to reach that threshold.
“I think the only card she has is the woman’s card”, Trump said.
What Trump said: “Kasich is now 1-in-46”, Trump said of Kasich’s lone OH win amid the state and territory primaries and caucuses.
Among Democrats, Clinton has 2,137 delegates to Sanders’ 1,306. Hillary Clinton is 90 percent of the way to the delegates needed for the nomination.
During an interview with the The Hill last July, Trump said “The RNC [Republican National Committee] has not been supportive”.
Mr Sanders has vowed to stay in the race until voting ends in June.
“Tonight, this campaign moves back to favorable terrain; tonight this campaign moves back to Indiana”, Cruz told the crowd.
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“The people in every state in this country should have the right to determine who they want as president and what the agenda of the Democratic Party should be”, he said in a statement Tuesday night.
