Trump and Clinton Near Nomination

The results are in from the “Northeast” primary and, as expected,  Trump and Clinton both had resounding wins across the region.  Trump swept all the five states (CT,DE,RI,MD,PA) and, at this point, seems to have won virtually all the delegates, with the Kasich-Cruz combo only managing to win 6 delegates outright.  This puts him ever closer to being able to get over the 1,237 delegate threshold and secure the nomination outright.

Hillary Clinton won four out of the five states, losing only in Rhode Island.  Bizarrely, due to the crazy nature of delegate apportionment (that’s a whole post in itself), she still managed to win more delegates than Sanders in that state.  These results pretty much lock up the nomination for Clinton but the strong showing by Sanders across the board in these states show he and his supporters will be a force to be reckoned with in the Democratic Party going forward.

Here in Connecticut, the results were in line with what I expected. It was a rout for Trump but Kasich did about 4% better than the polls indicated. And Hillary’s strength in the big cities and among lower Fairfield County Democrats were enough to provide about a 4% win.