Clinton, Trump planning New York victory parties
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NEW York was going to the polls yesterday in a pivotal presidential primary tipped to hand Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump victories in the race to clinch the Democratic and Republican tickets to the White House.
The former secretary of state, first lady and New York senator leads the polls by double digits over Brooklyn-born challenger Bernie Sanders, even if nationwide surveys put them neck and neck.
Trump, the Manhattan billionaire whose controversial campaign has appalled the Republican establishment, is streets ahead of his evangelical rival Ted Cruz and Ohio Governor John Kasich.
The tycoon is banking on a big home state victory in his quest to sew up the nomination before Republican grandees can deny him the ticket and anoint another candidate at the party convention in July.
Clinton and Trump have both scheduled what they hope will be victory parties in Manhattan.
To the disadvantage of Vermont senator Sanders, only New York’s 5.8 million registered Democrats and 2.7 million registered Republicans are eligible to vote. Independents are barred from taking part.
With both races for the White House nomination so competitive, it is the most consequential New York primary in decades in the country’s fourth largest state that is home to an incredibly diverse electorate.
Three of the candidates lay claim to calling New York home — Trump has never lived anywhere else, Clinton was twice elected the state’s US senator, and Sanders was raised in Brooklyn.
Clinton spent the day pressing the flesh in a whirlwind of campaign stops that included greeting nurses, stopping by a car wash, chatting to kitchen workers and eating ice cream.
In the evening, she made a joint appearance with her husband, former President Bill Clinton, at a Manhattan rally for Irish Americans.
A big victory in the state, which elected her over Barack Obama in 2008, would stall the momentum generated by a rival who has won seven out of the last eight state votes. Clinton holds 1,790 delegates compared to 1,113 for Sanders, putting her on course to scoop the 2,383 needed to secure the party’s ticket.
Only California has more than the 247 Democratic delegates and 44 superdelegates up for grabs in New York.
Sanders, 74, who has galvanized a youth movement with his call for health care as a right, free college education and campaign finance reform, needs a win to keep his hopes alive.
He predicted victory in New York if there was a large turnout.
But earlier in the day he signaled he could be willing to swing behind Clinton, should she win the nomination, provided she move further to the left on causes that he has highlighted.
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