Clinton, Trump win home state in the New York primaries

On Tuesday April 19, 2016 Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump won the New York Primaries.

On the Democratic side, Clinton won with 58% and acquired 139 delegates. Clinton’s competitor Bernie Sanders captured 106 delegates at 42% of the vote. This win is similar to the one Clinton obtained in the 2008 primary against Barack Obama. Sanders criticized the closed primary (which bars independents from voting and cut the deadline to switch to the Democratic Party off in October) and said, “In a state as large as New York, almost 30 percent of the eligible voters, some three million New Yorkers, were unable to vote today because they have registered as independents. That makes no sense to me at all.”

On the Republican side, Donald Trump won in a three-way race with 60.4%, gaining 89 delegates to John Kasich’s 3 (25.1%) and Ted Cruz’s 0 (14.5%). Many pundits attribute Cruz’s huge loss in the New York primary to the “New York values” phrase that he used in other states to describe Trump, hoping to derail him as a false conservative.