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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a New York primary night campaign event Tuesday, April 19, 2016, in New York.
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Trump, Clinton Triumph on Home Turf in New York

JULIE PACE                       the vote, he would be in     ocratic nomination.              other policy proposals than
JONATHAN LEMIRE                  strong position to win most  Trump captured more than         normal, reflecting the influ-
Associated Press                 of New York’s 95 delegates,  50 percent of the vote in        ence of a new team of ad-
NEW YORK (AP) — Front-           an impressive haul.          New York and was head-           visers seeking to profession-
runners Donald Trump and         Trump leads the Repub-       ed toward a big delegate         alize his campaign.
Hillary Clinton swept to         lican race with 756 del-     haul in his home state, a        Clinton’s triumph pad-
victory with ease in Tues-       egates, ahead of Sen. Ted    commanding showing that          ded her delegate lead
day’s New York primary,          Cruz with 559 and Ohio       keeps him on a path to the       over rival Bernie Sanders,
with Trump bouncing back         Gov. John Kasich with 144.   Republican nomination            depriving him of a crucial
from a difficult stretch in the  Securing the Republican      if he continues to win. He       opportunity to narrow the
Republican contest and           nomination requires 1,237.   claimed at least half of the     margin. Sanders vowed to
Clinton pushing closer to        Among Democrats, Clin-       95 delegates at stake Tues-      compete through all of the
locking up the Democratic        ton has 1,862 delegates to   day, and was likely to add       voting contests, though his
nomination.                      Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 1,161.  to his tally in individual con-  odds of overtaking Clinton
Trump’s victory was a psy-       Those totals include both    gressional districts.            at this stage in the race are
chological boost for his         pledged delegates from       “We don’t have much of           low.
campaign, though the im-         primaries and caucuses       a race anymore,” he said         “The race for the nomina-
pact on his path to the Re-      and superdelegates, the      during a victory rally in the    tion is in the home stretch,
publican nomination was          party insiders who can       lobby of the Manhattan           and victory is in sight,” Clin-
still to be determined by        back the candidate of        tower bearing his name.          ton declared to cheering
the number of delegates          their choice regardless of   He peppered his confident        supporters.
he secured. If he captured       how their state votes. It    remarks with more refer-
more than 50 percent of          takes 2,383 to win the Dem-  ences to the economy and             Continued on page 3