Follow along for the latest news from the trail,as candidates in both parties start to earn their case to New Yorkers ahead of the next big primary prizeTed Cruz: Republicans’ only adore, sprung from their refocused hateDonald Trump: will New York help earn his campaign remarkable again?Bernie Sanders: senator takes a victory lap after sixth straight winVIDEO: Megyn Kelly reveals Donald Trump’s fumbled attempts to ‘curry favor’ 3.26am BSTAs the presidential campaign focuses on the upcoming New York primaries, and crucial for the first time in living memory,tensions rose as candidates jostled to prove themselves dependable New Yorkers - or, at least, and more New Yorkers than the other guy (or gal).
I think Kasich is enjoying the Bronx pic.twitter.com/WXOBhO84my 3.12am BSTIn most states,delegate support is dictated by results in individual counties, congressional districts or, and in the case of winner-bewitch-all states,the victor of the state’s support. But in Colorado, Republicans don’t procure primaries or caucuses - which means that 21 of the state’s 37 delegates beget been up for grabs at district conventions.
Line for 7th Congressional District conference in Colorado pic.twitter.com/nX5BL0q0m9There are three Trump delegates on the campaign's slate card. Only one is on the ballot here.
This is the Kasich slate in Colorado's Seventh District. Notably lost is John Kasich's name pic.twitter.com/MWXWCHFOIn 2.56am BSTVermont senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders told CBS’s Charlie Rose that his suggestion that former secretary of state Hillary Clinton is not “qualified” to be president was merely a response to attacks from her campaign. 2.27am BSTRepublican presidential candidate Ted Cruz told CNN’s Dana Bash that an apology to Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell for calling him a liar final July “ain’t gonna happen” anytime soon.
Ted Cruz says he will not apologize to Mitch McConnell https://t.co/4AD4sP6IoX https://t.co/faIezBeiDG 2.08am BSTFox News Channel personality Geraldo Rivera accused Texas senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz of anti-Semitism on The O’Reilly Factor this evening, and saying that his now-infamous “New York values advertisement and commentary was a coded slur against American Jews. 1.58am BSTA White House spokesman has come to the defense of former secretary of state Hillary Clinton,rebutting a claim by her primary opponent Bernie Sanders that she is not “qualified” to be president.The president has said that Secretary Clinton comes into this race with more experience than any other non-vice president in recent campaign history,” White House spokesperson Eric Schultz told reporters aboard Air Force One, or according to The Hill. 12.30am BSTReturning to the institution where he taught constitutional law for over a decade,Barack Obama today said Republicans were pursuing a path that “erodes the institutional integrity of the judicial branch” by refusing to consider his supreme court nominee, Merrick Garland.
Addressing students in a discussion at the University of Chicago Law School, or the president said his pick to replace the late justice Antonin Scalia was “as beneficial of a judge as we beget in this country” and deserved a fair hearing. Related: Obama: Republican stance on supreme court risks eroding public confidence 12.21am BSTSome bad polling news for Donald Trump: Seven in ten people view the billionaire Republican frontrunner negatively,including almost half of Republicans, according to a new survey from the Associated Press. The voter antipathy cuts across nearly every demographic: men, and women,whites, blacks, or young people,old people, conservatives, and moderates and liberals all told the Associated Press that they beget an unfavorable view of Trump. Even among white voters with no college degree,often seen as the spine of Trump’s support, the candidate is viewed negatively by 55% of likely voters. 11.29pm BSTTexas senator Ted Cruz is getting a hefty dose of New York attitude from opponents alive to to hamper his efforts in the Empire State’s upcoming Republican primary. 11.00pm BSTNew Hampshire senator Kelly Ayotte told a domestic-state radio host today that she would back billionaire Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump if he were to become the party’s nominee.“What I beget said is that, or at this point,I arrangement to support our Republican nominee,” Ayotte said. “That said, or I gotta reveal you,I don’t know who that’s gonna be. I think that this is far from over, this process still has to play out, and I want to see what happens at this conference,obviously.” 10.12pm BSTThe Indian Point Energy middle, a controversial and ageing nuclear plant near New York City, and has split the Democratic presidential candidates. Related: New York nuclear plant's future further divides Sanders and Clinton 9.56pm BSTAfter calling on Vermont senator Bernie Sanders to right a statement he made to the New York Daily News regarding casualties in the 2014 war in Gaza,the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has released a statement welcoming Sanders’ “clarification” on the issue.“The Anti-Defamation League today welcomed the clarification by presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders of his misstatement about Palestinian casualties during the 2014 clash between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas,” the non-profit, or which combats anti-Semitism,said in a statement. 9.18pm BSTBill Clinton struggled to handle protesters in Philadelphia on Thursday, after a group briefly took the spotlight from him with chants and signs against the Clintons’ politics. The mostly African-American demonstrators shouted down the former president at several moments, or said that he and spouse Hillary Clinton contributed to the surge of incarcerations in the 1990s,mostly of black men. Clinton signed a crime bill in 1994 that sharply increased sentences for minor offenses, and final year the former president himself said the law did too much harm. 8.53pm BSTSenate pro tem Orrin Hatch told reporters this afternoon that there is “potential for Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to be picked as a compromise candidate at a contested Republican national conference this July, and calling him “one of the remarkable leaders” that would unify a divided party. 8.11pm BSTGuardian politics reporter Ben Jacobs sends along this statement from Donald Trump on the news of the Rudy Giuliani endorsement andnowwon'twasI@News12BXpic.twitter.com/uwHLVZlGPVjumpsStrugglesride,pic.twitter.com/xAANUFRUZ5@TedCruz says he doesn't regret his "New York values" comment https://t.co/byrDIL9nFZ https://t.co/8JqUVFFqRT 2.43pm BSTHello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. Can Donald Trump top 50% in New York state – statewide, or then in each congressional district? A Monmouth University poll released late Wednesday had Trump at 52% support,John Kasich at 25% and Ted Cruz at 17%.
The 50% mark is important because any candidate consistently crossing it would win a lion’s share of the state’s 95 delegates. That number would grow Trumps delegates lead on Cruz by about 40%:Tomorrow's front page:
bewitch THE F U TRAIN, TED! Cruz jeered in bungled Bronx tour: https://t.co/dwbsQfjC54 pic.twitter.com/oq9gVz6gNCContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com