Donald Trump Takes A Dig At Hillary Clinton After Sweeping East Coast Primaries: ‘If Clinton Were A Man She Wouldn’t Get Five Percent Of The Vote’ [Video]
It appears Donald Trump is now setting his sights on the general election showdown against Hillary Clinton.
The Republican front-runner swept through the Northeast primaries on Tuesday, registering major victories in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, and Rhode Island, bringing him tantalizingly close to sealing the GOP nomination. In fact, such was Trump’s confidence that he declared himself the party’s “presumptive nominee” once Tuesday’s results began rolling in.
“It’s over. As far as I’m concerned it’s over,” said Trump.
Speaking to the media at Trump Towers following the conclusion of primaries, the real estate mogul thanked his supporters for the wins, before launching an attack on Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton who, given Tuesday’s results, appears to be his next biggest impediment on the way to the White House.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton also scored major victories on Super Tuesday, winning four of the five contests, with Vermont senator Bernie Sanders registering his lone victory of the night in Rhode Island, according to CNN. Speaking to supporters in her election night headquarters in Philadelphia, the city that will host the Democratic National Convention this summer, Clinton appeared to insinuate that Sanders should now rally behind her campaign and help her in her bid to defeat the Republicans in the race to the Oval Office.
“With your help, we are going to come back to Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention with the most votes and the most pledged delegates,” Clinton told her supporters. “And we will unify our party to win this election and build an America where we can all rise together, an America where we lift each other up instead of tearing each other down.”
But Sanders has already pledged that regardless of the results in the Northeast primaries, he will fight Hillary Clinton to the finish.
Tuesday’s results may not change the Vermont senator’s resolve on that front, but it does appear increasingly unlikely that he will be able to force a major turnaround in the Democratic race from this point onward, with Clinton having already secured 90 percent of the total number of delegates needed to guarantee her the nomination.
According to Associated Press, Clinton now has 2,141 delegates while Sanders has 1,321, meaning the Vermont senator will have to score massive victories in the remaining states to even be considered mathematically in the race.
On the other side, after a big showing in the Northeast, Donald Trump picked up 105 of the 118 delegates up for grabs, taking his total delegate tally to 950 and bringing him strikingly close to the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the nomination.
Although his Republican presidential rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich had earlier vowed to coordinate strategies to slow the momentum of Trump and eventually force a contested convention in July, it seems to have had little effect on Trump’s campaign or his supporters, especially on the evidence of Tuesday’s results.
Having said that, the GOP is still widely divided over Trump’s presidential candidacy, and it could be a point that both his rivals would want to fully exploit before the real estate mogul runs away with the nomination. According to a New York Times analysis, Trump could only be two victories away from sealing the Republican nomination.
With both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton securing major victories in the Northeast, a general election that pits the two of them against each other appears increasingly in the cards. Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz and even John Kasich would hope something happens between now and July that changes that probability, but even at this stage, both Trump and Clinton might already be looking over their shoulders for the final prize at hand.
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