Geographically, Clinton is ahead of Sanders in New York City (58 percent to 39 percent) and in the suburbs (61 percent to 36 percent), but Sanders holds a one-point lead in Upstate New York (49 percent to 48 percent).
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Both Sanders and Democratic Clinton claim NY as their home state, but only Sanders can claim to have actually been born in the state, while Clinton didn’t become a resident until just prior to her run as U.S. Senator in 2000.
Fresh from a campaign victory in Wyoming, Bernie Sanders double-teamed the Sunday morning talk shows, appearing on two of them to promote his campaign’s strength against challenger Hillary Clinton, whose experience Sanders called into question last week.
Clinton’s campaign is looking for big wins across the Northeast, in an effort to gain what they’ve termed an “all but insurmountable” lead in the delegate race.
New York State’s democratic presidential primary happens on April 19th.
Cruz has won all 34 delegates up for grabs in the state and is now fewer than 200 delegates behind Trump in the race to the 1,237 needed to clinch the nomination.
“I know we have work to do”. As of this writing Donald Trump has 743 delegates while second-place contender Ted Cruz has 545.
Strikingly, 30 percent of likely Democratic voters who support Sanders say they wouldn’t support Clinton in a general election, compared with 15 percent of Clinton voters who say that about Sanders.
On CBS, Sanders noted that the contest has moved from the conservative South – “Not a stronghold for me” – into states like New York, Pennsylvania and California where he expects to do well.
Cruz is lagging behind the real-estate magnate with 545 delegates while Kasich has a remote chance of caching up with the competition having won only 143 delegates.
Bernie Sanders is pointing to the Justice Department’s roughly $5 billion settlement with Goldman Sachs over the sale of mortgage-backed securities, saying it’s a system that must be changed.
CNN has reached out to the Trump campaign for response to the ad.
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“That’s the side game because the only game I’m focusing on right now is getting delegates”, Manafort told NBC. “I think we have to open up politics. So are we. But people in NY remember what a great job (Clinton) did for them”.
