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NEW YORK, (APP/AFP): Fresh from resounding wins
in New York’s primaries, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump declared they were on the way to locking up their parties’ nominations, and turned Wednesday to the next critical round of presidential campaign contests.
Tuesday’s election routs on their home turf re-set the presidential race, as Clinton halted rival Bernie Sanders’ multi-state winning streak.
Trump also righted his ship, after a series of losses to Ted Cruz that have raised the specter of a bruising nomination endgame playing out at the Republican convention in July.
“The race for the Democratic nomination is in the home stretch, and victory is in sight,” Clinton told jubilant supporters late Tuesday in Manhattan.
The former secretary of state, first lady and senator from New York, who campaigned in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, widened her already substantial
delegate lead by securing 57.9 percent of the vote.
Vermont Senator Sanders received 42.1 percent — clearly a letdown for a campaign which had predicted a strong showing.
In her victory speech, the 68-year-old Clinton shifted her focus to the general election match-up with Republicans, extending an olive branch to
Sanders supporters after a tense New York primary.
“To all the people that supported Senator Sanders, I believe there’s much more that unites us than divides us,” said Clinton.
Sanders, for his part, insisted that he would rebound in the upcoming
primaries.
“We think we have a path to victory,” the 74-year old Sanders told
reporters.
The self-declared democratic socialist planned to return to campaign trail Thursday, with stops in Pennsylvania, which plans to hold its vote on April 26 — the same date as elections in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Rhode Island.