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New York primary live: Trump and Clinton win big in Empire State New York primary live: Trump and Clinton win big in Empire State
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Hillary Clinton: 'Thank you, New York!'
Speaking at a victory rally at the Sheraton New York and bopping her head to Jay-Z’s Empire State of Mind, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton told the assembled crowd of supporters that “there’s no place like home.”
“We have won in every region in the country,” Clinton said. “New Yorkers, you’ve always had my back, and I’ve always tried to have yours. Today together we did it again, and I am deeply, deeply grateful.”
“It is humbling that you trust me with the awesome responsibilities that await our next president, and to all the people who supported Senator Sanders, I believe that there is much more that unites us than divides us.”
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Forget momentum - tonight is all about delegates.
The Republican race has reached a critical stage in which every delegate counts. Before Tuesday, Trump led with 756, ahead of Cruz with 559 and Kasich with 144. After recent setbacks in Wisconsin and Wyoming, Trump’s path to an outright win has become precarious.
If he falls short of that target, he faces the prospect of a contested Republican convention in Cleveland in July, at which his delegates would be free in a second ballot to vote for a different candidate. There are already signs that he is being outmanoeuvred by Cruz when it comes to recruiting delegates. Critics say it has exposed his small and slapdash organisation.
Related: Donald Trump secures much-needed primary win in New York
This makes New York vital both in terms of numbers and perception, with the controversial tycoon hoping to regain momentum and reset the narrative to one in which he can set his popular backing against the party establishment and its complicated state-by-state rules for choosing a nominee.
After voting for his father on Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr told the Guardian: “I think the Republican party has an opportunity to do something great and bring in a lot of people – and they have the opportunity to totally blow it and disenfranchise all the people that my father’s brought in and everyone else who thought the people’s voice mattered.
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What to expect from Hillary Clinton’s victory speech
After an acrimonious contest in a state where both candidates have strong personal roots, the former secretary of state is expected to call on Democrats to begin the process of unifying against Republicans, even though Bernie Sanders may continue campaigning until July.
But bitter wrangling over alleged voting irregularities and strict registration rules may fuel anger among Sanders supporters who argue the system favours establishment candidates.
Earlier Sanders had criticised closed New York primary rules that require voters to register their party affiliation up to six months before the election. “Today, three million people in the state of New York who are independents have lost their right to vote in the Democratic or Republican primary. That’s wrong,” said the Vermont senator.
Most polling leading up to Tuesday’s primary showed Clinton comfortably ahead of Sanders in her adopted home state, which elected her to two terms as a US senator and also chose her over Barack Obama in 2008.
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Delegate news: Billionaire Republican frontrunner and newly minted New York victory Donald Trump appears to be on track to win at least 50% of the Republican vote in New York tonight, guaranteeing him all 14 of the state’s at-large delegates.
Given his current standing in congressional districts in the southern half of the state - where precinct results are coming in more quickly than upstate - Trump is well on his way to taking the lion’s share of tonight’s 81 district-bound delegates.
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John Kasich’s campaign, in lieu of a concession speech, has emailed supporters to announce that tonight’s results in New York “bring clarity” to the state of the Republican presidential primary, and how his campaign plans to go forward.
“Kasich proved that he is best positioned against Donald Trump in the upcoming April 26 states,” the email states, citing Cruz’s crushing loss in New York tonight. “Ted Cruz’s brand of politics simply won’t play with most voters in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland. A vote for Cruz in these states is a vote for Trump. And a vote for Cruz or Trump is a vote for Hillary Clinton in November because neither of them can win a general election.
“Ted Cruz cemented the fact that he is eliminated from securing the nomination outright before Cleveland. Heading into tonight, he needed more than 100% of bound delegates to get the nomination. Now, that number is even higher and things are only going to get worse for him on April 26.”
“Bottomline: The next 7 days are absolutely critical and every Republican in the country who wants an open convention and to win the White House should rally around Gov. Kasich in the upcoming April 26 states. It’s now or never to stop Trump and save the Republican Party.”
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Hillary Clinton wins New York Democratic primaryHillary Clinton wins New York Democratic primary
With 38.1% of precincts reporting, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton has been declared the winner of the New York Democratic primary.With 38.1% of precincts reporting, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton has been declared the winner of the New York Democratic primary.
She currently leads Vermont senator Bernie Sanders 60.5% to 39.5% in the Empire State, a hard-won victory for the former senator from New York and a bitter loss for Sanders, who campaigned hard in New York with rally audiences that numbered in the tens of thousands.She currently leads Vermont senator Bernie Sanders 60.5% to 39.5% in the Empire State, a hard-won victory for the former senator from New York and a bitter loss for Sanders, who campaigned hard in New York with rally audiences that numbered in the tens of thousands.
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Mona ChalabiMona Chalabi
I’ve just been asked by a coworker why exit polls suggest that Clinton will beat Sanders by just four percentage points - that seems very different to the results so far, which show the former secretary of state over 20 percentage points ahead of the Vermont senator.I’ve just been asked by a coworker why exit polls suggest that Clinton will beat Sanders by just four percentage points - that seems very different to the results so far, which show the former secretary of state over 20 percentage points ahead of the Vermont senator.
The explanation is relatively straightforward. Just 30% of the votes have been counted - at such an early point in the night, it’s likely that Clinton’s huge lead is simply because votes have been counted in areas where she has been more successful. Once all the votes are in, it’s likely that Sanders will have caught up considerably.The explanation is relatively straightforward. Just 30% of the votes have been counted - at such an early point in the night, it’s likely that Clinton’s huge lead is simply because votes have been counted in areas where she has been more successful. Once all the votes are in, it’s likely that Sanders will have caught up considerably.
WNYC have a handy map which shows results alongside familiar neighborhood names. So far, Clinton is performing well in Soundview and Bruckner (in the Bronx) as well as the Upper East side. Sanders meanwhile is doing well in Greenpoint.WNYC have a handy map which shows results alongside familiar neighborhood names. So far, Clinton is performing well in Soundview and Bruckner (in the Bronx) as well as the Upper East side. Sanders meanwhile is doing well in Greenpoint.
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Mona ChalabiMona Chalabi
I’ve just been asked by a coworker why exit polls suggest that Clinton will beat Sanders by just four percentage points - that seems very different to the results so far which show Clinton is over 20 percentage points ahead of the Vermont senator.I’ve just been asked by a coworker why exit polls suggest that Clinton will beat Sanders by just four percentage points - that seems very different to the results so far which show Clinton is over 20 percentage points ahead of the Vermont senator.
The explanation is relatively straightforward: Just 16% of the votes have been counted - at such an early point in the night, it’s likely that Clinton’s huge lead is simply because votes have been counted in areas where she has been more successful. Once all the votes are in, it’s likely that Sanders would have caught up considerably.WNYC have a handy map which shows results alongside familiar neighborhood names. So far, Clinton is performing well in Soundview and Bruckner (in the Bronx) as well as the Upper East side. Sanders, meanwhile, is doing well in Greenpoint.The explanation is relatively straightforward: Just 16% of the votes have been counted - at such an early point in the night, it’s likely that Clinton’s huge lead is simply because votes have been counted in areas where she has been more successful. Once all the votes are in, it’s likely that Sanders would have caught up considerably.WNYC have a handy map which shows results alongside familiar neighborhood names. So far, Clinton is performing well in Soundview and Bruckner (in the Bronx) as well as the Upper East side. Sanders, meanwhile, is doing well in Greenpoint.
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Lucia GravesLucia Graves
Remember #NYValues? Looks like NYers do too. No sooner did the polls close at 9pm than it was announced Donald Trump had won in his home state. He just delivered a typically upbeat victory speech, saying: “I can think of nowhere that I would rather have this victory.” That victory was a foregone conclusion at least as far back as January when Ted Cruz first cast his aspersions about Trump’s “New York values”. It seemed like a strategic enough thing to say then – after all, New York comes so late in the primary season it typically doesn’t matter. But this year it did, and those much-repeated words have come back to haunt him.Remember #NYValues? Looks like NYers do too. No sooner did the polls close at 9pm than it was announced Donald Trump had won in his home state. He just delivered a typically upbeat victory speech, saying: “I can think of nowhere that I would rather have this victory.” That victory was a foregone conclusion at least as far back as January when Ted Cruz first cast his aspersions about Trump’s “New York values”. It seemed like a strategic enough thing to say then – after all, New York comes so late in the primary season it typically doesn’t matter. But this year it did, and those much-repeated words have come back to haunt him.
For months Cruz has tried to explain away the ill-considered phrase, saying that he was talking about the politicians, not the people, among other things. But the soundbite has stuck with him, thanks in part to Trump, who last night accused him of outright hating New York and declaring “no New Yorker can work for Ted Cruz”. There are other things working against Cruz in the state, like the fact that there are almost no pockets of the evangelical conservatism he preaches, but essentially Trump is right: New York values mean a vote against Cruz.For months Cruz has tried to explain away the ill-considered phrase, saying that he was talking about the politicians, not the people, among other things. But the soundbite has stuck with him, thanks in part to Trump, who last night accused him of outright hating New York and declaring “no New Yorker can work for Ted Cruz”. There are other things working against Cruz in the state, like the fact that there are almost no pockets of the evangelical conservatism he preaches, but essentially Trump is right: New York values mean a vote against Cruz.
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Continuing his speech, Donald Trump pledged to fix America’s economy, which he called his “wheelhouse.”Continuing his speech, Donald Trump pledged to fix America’s economy, which he called his “wheelhouse.”
“We are gonna be so strong again, we are gonna be literally, legitimately so strong again,” Trump said. “We don’t have much of a race anymore, going by what I see on television. Senator Cruz... I’ve pretty much knocked the hell out of him.”“We are gonna be so strong again, we are gonna be literally, legitimately so strong again,” Trump said. “We don’t have much of a race anymore, going by what I see on television. Senator Cruz... I’ve pretty much knocked the hell out of him.”
“Nobody should take delegates and claim victory unless they win those delegates with voters and voting,” Trump said, critiquing the delegate battles he has recently lost to Ted Cruz as “crooked.”“Nobody should take delegates and claim victory unless they win those delegates with voters and voting,” Trump said, critiquing the delegate battles he has recently lost to Ted Cruz as “crooked.”
“We’re going to go into the convention, I think, as the winner,” Trump promised. “I wanna just thank everybody, I have great, great admiration and praise for the city of New York and the state of New York. I can think of nowhere I would rather have this victory!”“We’re going to go into the convention, I think, as the winner,” Trump promised. “I wanna just thank everybody, I have great, great admiration and praise for the city of New York and the state of New York. I can think of nowhere I would rather have this victory!”
“Thank you everybody, and thank you New York! We love New York! We love New York!”“Thank you everybody, and thank you New York! We love New York! We love New York!”
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Donald Trump: 'Nobody is gonna mess with us'
After the audience was concussed by Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York on full volume, billionaire Republican frontrunner Donald Trump told the assembled crowd of media and supporters at Trump Tower that “nobody is going to mess with us” when he is elected president.
“It’s just incredible,” Trump said, “I guess we’re close to 70%, and we’re gonna end at a very high level, and get a lot more delegates than anybody projected, even in their wildest dreams.”
“I really wanna thank my team - my team has been amazing,” Trump said, referencing recent tumult in his campaign’s organization. “It’s a team of unity, it’s evolving, but people don’t understand.”
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Ben Jacobs
John Weaver, the top strategist for Ohio governor John Kasich, was confident early in the evening that his campaign would pick up some delegates in New York. He went on to note that Cruz’s collapse in the Empire State presages what will be a rough night for him next week.
“What is happening to Cruz in New York is corresponding with what we’re seeing in the other April 26 states,” Weaver said. “He’s cast in a very narrow lane.”
2.26am BST
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Amber Jamieson
Amber Jamieson reports from Williamsburg, where a “Beers for Bernie” event has already begun...
Polls close in 5 mins and the Beers for Bernie event in Williamsburg now has a decent crowd spread out. pic.twitter.com/zzmgPsYwY1
The TVs at the Beers for Bernie event in Williamsburg were only turned on shortly before the polls closed at 9 pm, the crowd busy chatting with friends and hanging in their Bernie T-shirts.
Moments after, Donald Trump’s face appeared on screen as the projected Republican winner, with MSNBC calling his win “significant.”
One girl put her head in her hands, while another twenty-something scrunched up her face in disgust. “It’s impossible,” muttered a Sanders supporter. Then, a small cheer went up around the bar when it popped up that the Democrats race between Sanders and Clinton was “too close to call.”
A group of mates raised their beers and toasted “to Bernie.”
“I’m thinking positive,” said Charlie Le Grice, a 30-year-old actor. She’d spent the day working as a volunteer on the Sanders campaign, driving potential voters to polling stations and helping with affidavits for those whose Democratic registration had been improperly recorded.
“I’m nervous because of what happened today,” said Le Grice. “It was reminiscent of what happened in Florida [during the 2000 election], I didn’t think we’d ever see that again.”
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Here’s video of the promised LED change at the Empire State Building:
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Ben Jacobs
Ninety miles from New York, Ted Cruz debuted a new stump speech to a crowd of more than 100 people at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
Preemptively dismissing Donald Trump’s expected blowout as “a politician tonight winning his home state,” Cruz sought to reframe himself as outsider similar to Bernie Sanders.
“I am an outsider, Bernie Sanders is an outsider,” he proclaimed. “Both with the same diagnosis, but both with very different paths to healing. Millions of Americans have chosen one of these outsiders.” Cruz went on to add that “Ronald Reagan and Jack Kennedy were outsiders.” Yet Cruz contrasted himself not with Sanders or Reagan or even Trump. Instead, he cast the competition as fellow Harvard Law grad in went into politics, Barack Obama.
The Texas senator sought to introduce “yes we will” as new slogan in contrast to Obama’s “yes we can.” As Cruz orated: “Our sitting president ran on a slogan that should have been a great first step… It promised us, “yes we can.” In his analysis “Yes we can” was a recognition of the hope that we can and should recover.
“The problem was that Barack Obama’s prescriptions only led to more elitist control from Washington. Less freedom for the people.”
The rhetoric marked another attempt for Cruz to try to further distinguish himself as an outsider and appeal the insurgent mood among Republican primary voters in 2016. Cruz has long railed against “the Washington cartel” but this marked a new framing of that message with more optimistic rhetoric.
The question is how Cruz can weather what will be a tough stretch for the Texas senator. After several weeks where he won a victory in Wisconsin with the support of much of the state’s Republican establishment and then scored wins in states like North Dakota and Colorado which chose their delegates via convention, he now faces a rough April. Not only is Trump expected to win New York in a blowout but the Republican frontrunner is favored in all five Atlantic states holding primaries on April 26.
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Lucia Graves
Bernie Sanders has zero margin for error tonight and early exit polls suggest he may just be walking that perfect line. He’s creaming Hillary Clinton by 72 points to 28 among voters under 30, according to early CNN exit polls, and he also has a significant lead among whites. The polls have been tightening in recent weeks, even before candidates turned their attention to New York. And it may be that the race has tightened more than anyone believed.
Nate Silvers has made a convincing case that, given enough time to make his case to the American public, Sanders will outperform expectations. But it could be too little, too late. There are only 17 contests left in this election cycle, and almost all of the big ones to come are closed primaries – as New York is – a fact that hurts Sanders.
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CNN has released its exit poll numbers - surveys of voters taken after they leave their voting place, which are considered the most accurate polling data available - and the numbers on the Republican side show the true breadth of Donald Trump’s victory in New York tonight.
The billionaire Republican frontrunner is shown to have won supermajorities of nearly every demographic group who voted in today’s Republican primary: men (59%), women (56%), all age groups 30 and older, whites (59%), and, perhaps most surprisingly, New Yorkers of all education levels.
Long described as the candidate of those with lower education levels, Trump won supermajorities among those with high school diplomas or less (67%), some college education (59%), a college degree (53%) and those with postgraduate degrees (50%).
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More on Donald Trump’s victory: The billionaire Republican frontrunner was widely expected to take New York, his home state and the headquarters of his real estate and media empire, but the night is far from over for Texas senator Ted Cruz and Ohio governor John Kasich, who are holding out hope that they will have been able to chip away enough at his support in targeted congressional districts to prevent a full sweep of the state’s 95 delegates.
Should Trump win 50% or more of the vote in New York, he will take home all of the state’s 14 at-large delegates. For every congressional district he wins an absolute majority in, he’ll take home three additional delegates each. Should he fail to clear the 50% threshold, however, he will lose one of the three delegates to the second-place finisher - at this point, likely Kasich.
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Donald Trump wins New York Republican primary
Well, that was quick!
Seconds after the polls closed in the Empire State, the Associated Press - as well as CNN, MSNBC, and most of the other networks - have called the New York Republican primary for billionaire frontrunner Donald Trump.
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Lauren Gambino
Hillary Clinton is holding what she hopes will be a victory party in the ballroom of the Sheraton in Midtown because nothing says thank you New York quite like a night out in Times Square.
The ballroom is decorated with Hillary campaign signs and milling with chipper supporters wearing stickers and buttons. Among them is Whitney Peterson, a sales representative, who crossed state lines from New Jersey to hear Clinton speak.
“I just wanted to be a part of history if she does become the first female president of the United States,” Peterson said, before quickly correcting herself: “Or when she does.”
Peterson, who will vote in the New Jersey primary, said she supported Barack Obama in 2008, but believes this year is Clinton’s time. “We’ve just both grown a lot since then,” she said.
At around 8:30, a band began to play covers of singles straight off the iTunes top pop singles list starting with Pharrell’s Uptown Funk. Playing at the moment of filing: Taylor Swift’s Shake It Off – which she’s hoping won’t be necessary after all is said and done tonight.