Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton scored sweeping victories in nominating contests in their home state of New York, then immediately cited those wins to argue that they are all but unstoppable as their respective parties’ presidential nominees.
Trump’s crushing defeat of Senator Ted Cruz in Tuesday’s primary election tilted the energy in the Republican race back to the front-runner, just as Republican National Committee members began meeting in Florida yesterday to discuss their July convention, where the nominee is to be chosen.
For the Democratic favorite, Clinton’s more narrow victory over Senator Bernie Sanders snapped a string of victories by the 74-year-old socialist and gave her a much-needed lift with more tough fights ahead.
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The eventual victors of the Democratic and the Republican nominating campaigns will face each other in November’s general election.
Trump’s win, celebrated to the tune of Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York at Trump Tower in Manhattan, marked a rebound from his Wisconsin defeat two weeks ago. It set him up for another big night on Tuesday next week, when Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware and Maryland are to hold primaries.
“We don’t have much of a race anymore based on what I’m seeing on television,” Trump said as television networks projected a large margin of victory for him. “Senator Cruz is just about mathematically eliminated.”
Clinton, a former US senator from New York, former US secretary of state and former first lady, got nowhere near the knockout punch she needed to finally put Sanders away, but the broad smile on her face as she gave her victory speech spoke volumes about how important New York was to her bid to become the first female US president.
“Today you proved once again there’s no place like home,” Clinton said. “This one was personal.”
The race for the Democratic nomination, she said, is now in “the home stretch and victory is in sight.”
Democratic strategist Jim Manley said Clinton has a delicate balancing act in trying to draw in Sanders supporters, while pivoting to a general election matchup against the Republican nominee.
“She runs a risk. If she goes too far to the left [to draw in Sanders’ supporters], she’s going to upset independents and others that she’s going to need in the general [election],” Manley said.
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