New York – Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton won commanding victories in New York state’s US presidential nominating contests on Tuesday, recapturing lost campaign momentum and moving the front-runners closer to their parties’ nominations.
The billionaire businessman’s huge victory in his home state put Trump in position to win nearly all of the state’s 95 delegates, edging closer to the 1,237 delegates needed to win his party’s presidential nomination and avoid a contested national convention in July.
Clinton’s dominating double-digit primary election win in New York, which she once represented in the US Senate, snapped Democratic rival Bernie Sanders’ winning streak.
The victories in one of the biggest state nominating contests so far set up Trump and Clinton for another round of strong performances next Tuesday, when they are expected to do well in five other Northeastern state primaries.
The New York victory will expand Clinton’s lead of 244 pledged delegates over Sanders, and make it nearly impossible for him to overcome the deficit and capture the 2,383 delegates needed for the nomination under Democratic rules that allocate delegates proportionally based on each state’s result.
Source: News Agencis, April 20
