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WASHINGTON, (APP/AFP): Republican presidential frontrunner
Donald Trump on Tuesday scored major wins in the Pennsylvania, Maryland and Connecticut primaries, US networks projected, while Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton drew first blood in Maryland.
Trump and Clinton were expected to do well in the night’s five
contests, which also include votes in Delaware and Rhode Island.The two are looking to move even closer to locking up the nominations of their respective parties.
Should Clinton sweep the evening’s primaries, it would put her on the
cusp of victory against her rival Senator Bernie Sanders, a monumental step in the 68-year-old’s quest to become the nation’s first female commander-in-chief.
“I don’t have the nomination yet,” Clinton — a former secretary of
state, first lady and US senator — said in a town hall event in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s largest city, on the eve of the vote.
“We’re going to work really hard until the polls close.”
Trump also was expected to extend his formidable lead in the bruising
Republican race, even as rivals Ted Cruz and John Kasich mounted a hasty — and already fraying — tag team effort to block him.
Kasich agreed to forego campaigning in Indiana, a winner-take-all
state that votes May 3, and Cruz, a US senator from Texas, will return the favor later in New Mexico and Oregon.