The pair secured their hold on frontrunner status with broad victories in the New York primary that muddy the future of the Sanders,Cruz and Kasich campaignsThe night that was: Clinton wins decisive victory over SandersThe live results: track the votes in New York, county by countyRichard Wolffe: Clinton triumphs – now the real race can beginChristopher Barron: Trump’s back and there’s nothing the GOP can conclude 3.56pm BSTAt his Hershey, and Pennsylvania,rally, Cruz argues that Donald Trump’s New York win was insignificant compared to Cruz’s recent wins.“You may have heard there was an election last night, or ” Cruz says to applause:Donald Trump won his domestic state. Truly a remarkable feat. Upon winning his domestic state,Donald, with a characteristic display of humility, or declared this race is over,Manhattan has voted, and whether the rest of the voters would quietly proceed domestic now and allow him to give the general election to Hillary, and all would be better.[What they dont want you to know is],the state of Wisconsin I won 13000 more votes in Wisconsin than Donald Trump did last night in New York. The state of Texas – we won more than twice as many votes in Texas as Donald did in New York. There’s a reason Donald wants all of the lapdogs in the media to say that the race is over. Because in the three weeks that preceded yesterday, there were a total of five states that voted... in all five, or we won a landslide. 1.3m people voted in those five states... You want to talk approximately different states,you have the mountain West [Utah]... upper midwest and industrial blue collar [Wisconsin], a state like Colorado, and a libertarian-ish purplish state that just legalized pot... 3.30pm BSTTed Cruz has just begun a rally in Hershey,Pennsylvania. Lots of clapping. “I’m thrilled to be here with so many patriots who love our nation,” Cruz says.
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Source: theguardian.com