New York Primaries Deliver Huge Victories for Primary Front-Runners

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By FoxNews.com. Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton regained their stride in the presidential race Tuesday night, winning their respective primaries in New York — and sending a message to their rivals that their campaigns are back on track after recent stumbles.

Trump, in his home state, notched what appeared to be his biggest victory yet. Speaking to cheering supporters Tuesday night at Trump Tower, he declared: “We don’t have much of a race anymore.”

“[Texas] Senator [Ted] Cruz is just about mathematically eliminated,” Trump claimed. “We’re really, really rockin’.” Indeed, Cruz’s poor showing left him with no mathematical chance of clinching the nomination before the Republican convention in July, though Trump could still end up short of the needed 1,237 needed to seal victory before the gathering. . .

In the Democratic race, Clinton soundly defeated Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in her adopted home state, which she represented in the Senate for eight years. Despite the Brooklyn-born Sanders’ hard-fought attempt at an upset, the former secretary of state successfully staved off that possibility Tuesday night. With 94 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton had 58 percent to Sanders’ 42 percent. (Read more about the New York Primaries HERE)

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Trump the “Runaway Winner” in New York Primaries

By Scott Kelnhofer. As expected, Donald Trump is the runaway winner in today’s New York Republican primary.

Within minutes after the polls closed, CNN projected the real estate mogul as the winner. With more than 40 percent of precincts reporting, Trump had more than 62 percent of the vote. Ohio Gov. John Katich was second with 23 percent of the vote, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has only 14 percent of the vote.

The question coming into the night was not if Trump would win his home state primary, but rather by how much. The margin would be important in determining how the state’s 95 delegates would be allocated.

CNN not only projected Trump would win the state, the network also projects Trump would win more than 50 percent of the vote across the state’s congressional districts, which would give him all of the state’s delegates.

It was a dramatic turnaround from just two weeks ago, when Cruz picked up a double-digit win in Wisconsin and so-called establishment Republicans hoped they were seeing the beginning of the end of Trump’s dominance.

No such concerns were being raised after Tuesday’s win. (Read more from “New York Primaries Deliver Huge Victories for Primary Front-Runners” HERE)

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