Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump aim to sweep five states

Apr 28, 2016, 17:52

Republican Donald Trump says that Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton is only doing well in the election because of her gender.

'Frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man I don't think she would get five per cent of the vote. "The lovely thing is, women don't like her. Look how well I did with women tonight". In Pennsylvania, exit polls showed almost 4 in 10 GOP voters said they would be excited by Trump becoming president, but the prospect of the real estate mogul in the White House scared a quarter of those who cast ballots in the state's Republican primary.

Clinton is on solid footing in the Democratic race and enters Tuesday's contests having accumulated 82 percent of the delegates needed to win her party's nomination. "She's playing it much harder this time and she will be called on it".

Clinton's campaign followed up on Wednesday by releasing an online ad with her "deal me in" message, while in morning interviews, Trump repeated his argument that Clinton wouldn't have made it as far in the campaign as a man. The feud comes as both frontrunners are beginning to shift their focus to an increasingly likely general election matchup.

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While Clinton's campaign expects Sanders to stay in the race, her advisers are eager for the Vermont senator to tone down his attacks on the former secretary of state. "Everyone's saying that", Trump said.

Following Trump's overwhelming victory in NY on April 19, Ted Cruz and John Kasich have been working together to prevent Trump from reaching 1,237 delegates before the convention. It takes 2,383 to win the Democratic nomination.

When comparing unlabelled, statewide maps of Clinton and Sanders victories, it would seem as if the two candidates had equal support. After the NY primary, it is now mathematically impossible for Cruz to clinch the Republican nomination using bound or pledged delegates before the July convention in Cleveland.

Cruz and Kasich announced an informal alliance of sorts over the weekend, with Kasich ceding IN, which votes next Tuesday, to Cruz, while Cruz said he would not campaign IN later primaries IN New Mexico and Oregon.

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While Trump labelled himself the "presumptive nominee" with victories in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, Clinton was denied a clean sweep by rival Bernie Sanders.

"That may sound odd, but I think that's kind of what we need", Seyler, 63, a senior buyer for a direct marketer, said Tuesday at a polling place in Hamburg, Pennsylvania. Adding to the obstacles for Sanders, four of the states that vote today - Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut and Rhode Island - are closed to anyone not registered as a Democrat.

More than 6 in 10 Democratic voters in the state said Clinton has the best chance of beating Trump in November. For this reason, the wife of one of Trump's most sycophantic supporters, Chris Christie, could not help but grimace.

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