A Decisive Night in GOP and Democratic Nomination Races

With 172 Republican delegates up for grabs and another 384 at stake on the Democratic side, Tuesday’s presidential primary elections added some distance between the two parties’ respective front-runners and the challengers who remain in the race.

After Republican Donald Trump was reported as the projected winner of three states — Connecticut, Maryland and Pennsylvania — just minutes after polls closed in those states, news outlets followed up a short time later by projecting he also won the other two state primaries of the night, adding delegates in Delaware and Rhode Island.

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Polling prior to the Northeastern primaries showed Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton poised to win the majority of delegates on Tuesday night. Both front-runners have faced their own controversies throughout the election cycle, though The New York Times’ Alexander Burns pointed to Tuesday’s election as “their best chance before June to gain a final, decisive advantage over their opponents.”

While Trump seems to have succeeded in expanding his lead, the results were less decisive on the Democratic side. Though front-runner Hillary Clinton was quickly named the projected winner of Maryland’s race, taking home 46 of that state’s 95 possible delegates, challenger Bernie Sanders earned 17. (Read more from “A Decisive Night in GOP and Democratic Nomination Races” HERE)

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