Trump, Clinton score major victories
Trump, Clinton score major victories
Trump's political strength was on display with a annexation of races in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Clinton delivered big wins in Maryland and Pennsylvania -- the biggest prizes of the night -- again Delaware and Connecticut. Bernie Sanders picked up his sole victory of the night in Rhode Island.
The wins for Trump -- following a massive victory last week in New York -- move him significantly closer to the 1,237 delegates he needs to win the nomination outright and avoid a contested Republican convention. That historic prospect is now the only way rivals Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich could stop Trump from becoming the GOP nominee.
"This to me was our biggest night," Trump said in his victory speech. "I consider myself the presumptive nominee."
Clinton's big wins, meanwhile, help bolster her campaign's argument sweeping is time for Sanders to elect to stop personal and political attacks on the former secretary of state that could weaken her ahead of a showdown in November with Republicans.
She catch stage to cheers in her election night headquarters in Philadelphia, the city that will host the Democratic National Convention this summer.
"With your help, we are going to act in response to Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention with the most votes and the most pledged delegates," Clinton declared. "And we will unify our party to win this election and build an America where we can all rise together, an America where we lift each other up instead tearing each other down."
General election clash
Clinton foreshadowed the potential general election vary Trump that could obsess women voters.
"The latterly, Mr. Trump accused me, of playing the, quote, woman card," she said. "Well, if defend women's health protection and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman card, then deal me in."
Trump reciprocate during his victory speech.
"I think the only card she has is the women's card," Trump said. "She has got nothing else going. Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don't think she would get 5% of the vote."
He added: "And the beautiful thing is women don't like her, ok?"
As of 2 a.m. ET, Trump picked up at least 142 delegates on Tuesday, bringing him to 988 compared to Cruz at 568 and Kasich at 152, contained in each CNN estimates. Clinton won at least 214 delegates, boosting her total 2,168, which includes 1,666 pledged and 502 superdelegates. Sanders holds 1,401 delegates, including 1,359 pledged delegates and 42 superdelegates.
There were the first signs that Sanders may must embrace a change of tactics, despite vowing to take his campaign all the way to the Democratic convention in July.
In a statement issued after the results materialize, Sanders insisted that he was in the race until "the last vote is cast." But he added: "That is why this campaign is going to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia with as many delegates as possible to promote a progressive party platform."
While Sanders mentioned his desire contend to influence the issues the party will fight on in November, he did not promise to okay a personal victory in the campaign — a significant difference.
Trump's challengers may have one conditions to stop him from winning the nomination outright by beating him in the Indiana primary next week.
Cruz, speaking before polls closed -- in a clear sign that he expected a bad night -- slammed the media why he said was a premature judgment that the general-election nominees budding Clinton and Trump. He branded them "New York liberals."
But he predicted things would change next week.
"I've got doctrine for you tonight, this campaign require to more favorable terrain," Cruz told a introduce Indiana.
But Trump already has his head a general election — and will move further into a national campaign mode with a major international relations address in Washington on Wednesday, several a process of putting a more conventional and professional foundation under his campaign — even as he insists that his wild rallies and volatile rhetoric which powered his political rise will continue.
In the Democratic race, Clinton's victories count on her resounding success in New York, which stunted Sanders' momentum and left the senator -- for all his fundraising muscle and large rallies -- fending off calls from Clinton supporters to fold his campaign so that she can start exclusively targeting Republicans.
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