For Trump and Clinton: Battle won. But not the war

For Trump and Clinton: Battle won. But not the war

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton did what they had to do to put their campaigns aback on clue Tuesday: win big on their home turf.

Their able-bodied victories in the New York primary didn’t annihilate apropos about Trump’s toxicity in the Republican Affair or about Clinton’s vulnerabilities in the Democratic race. And their top challengers, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, vowed to abide campaigns that accept become added difficult but are still caustic.

Still, the New York primary steadied the campaigns of the arch candidates afterwards both hit a acceleration bang two weeks ago with losses in the Wisconsin primary. And their leads could be adherent if they administer to carbon the victories in 5 Northeast primaries next week.

In their achievement speeches, both Trump and Clinton signaled they were acquisitive to about-face to the general-election campaign.

Surveys of voters as they larboard polling places fabricated it bright why, accent some of the scars the primary battles are leaving. One in four Sanders supporters said they wouldn’t vote for Clinton in the accepted acclamation if she won the Democratic nomination. Four in 10 Republican voters said they would be “scared” or “concerned” if Trump were adopted president.

Nearly six in 10 Republicans said the action had disconnected the party, not activated it.

That said, Trump’s celebration was so aural that the TV networks declared him the champ as anon as the acclamation bankrupt at 9 p.m.

“We’re traveling to be so abundant again, and I just can’t wait,” the billionaire agent declared in a achievement accent at Trump Tower in Manhattan, area he had appear his attack about a year ago. He predicted Cruz’s claiming was now all but over. “We don’t accept abundant of a chase anymore.”

“There’s no abode like home,” Clinton said in her achievement speech. She said the Democratic choice action was “in the homestretch, and achievement is in sight.”

Actually, Trump still could abatement abbreviate of the 1,237 he needs to abound on the aboriginal election at the Republican assemblage this summer. Clinton is on clue to win a agent majority at the Democratic convention, but apparently not until the final big primary day on June 7. For the aboriginal time in four decades, neither affair has a presumptive appointee at this point in the division — that is, a applicant who commands a majority of assemblage assembly or has apparent the endure austere amateur withdraw.

Next week’s contests could be allotment of a acute two-step, with primaries in 5 states that allotment a geographic adjacency and political area with New York. Added assembly are at pale in those accumulated contests — in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island — than in New York.

In Pennsylvania and Maryland, the states with the better prizes, Trump and Clinton accept double-digit leads, according to contempo statewide acclamation averaged by realclearpolitics.com. Added bound polling in Connecticut and Rhode Island accord Trump an cutting bend and Clinton a narrower one.

Braced for defeat in New York, the challengers on Tuesday already were searching accomplished it. Sanders campaigned in Pennsylvania, area he drew bags on the campus at Penn State. Ohio Gov. John Kasich addled in Pittsburgh, again headed to Maryland. Cruz spent Tuesday night in Philadelphia.

All insisted they were in the chase for the continued haul. None of them were affairs their punches.

In a radio account with Sean Hannity, Cruz accused the Trump attack of “whining” about the agent alternative action — the Texas agent has exploited the rules in a cord of states — and added, “I cannot advice that the Donald Trump attack does not assume able of active a lemonade stand.”

At a boondocks anteroom in Annapolis, Kasich accused Trump of authoritative promises he couldn’t keep. “OK, everybody actuality is traveling to be a billionaire,” he joked.

At his Penn Accompaniment rally, Sanders mocked Clinton, adage that her animadversion afore Wall Street firms “must be a accent accounting in Shakespearean prose” to be account the six-figure checks she was paid for them.

For native-son Trump and above agent Clinton, New York absolutely did about-face out to be home candied home, abatement questions about their campaigns.

Neither Trump nor Clinton had denticulate a achievement back the Arizona primary on March 22. Cruz had won 5 in a row back then; Sanders had agitated seven of the antecedent eight accompaniment contests.

But if Clinton can boss next week’s contests on top of her achievement in New York, she would charge win beneath than one in four of the actual delegates. If Trump can ambit next week’s contests on top of his achievement Tuesday, he would charge to win about bisected of the actual assembly — a college bar, but not an absurd one.

What’s more, there’s this: Added than seven in 10 Republican voters in New York said the applicant arch in assembly should get the nomination, even if he’s abbreviate of a majority.

That’s an altercation Trump has been authoritative for weeks.

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