Authored by Eli Stokols, originally posted at Politico.com,
Even before Donald Trump’s big win in New York Tuesday night, the conversations among party officials and high-level operatives about a contested Republican convention were already shifting dramatically.
For all intents and purposes, Hillary Clinton clinched the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday with a resounding double-digit win over Bernie Sanders in New York’s primary. From here on, the upcoming Democratic contests will have the air of a coronation procession for Clinton, and a death march for Sanders. The septuagenarian may continue to gripe about superdelegates, but his 280,000-vote loss in New York was a reminder that not everyone was feeling the Bern.
Putting much of the recent doubts about his slowing momentum to the side, Donald Trump roared to a major victory in New York last night, collecting over 60% of the vote which will see him come away with a huge haul of delegates that moves him closer to the GOP presidential nomination.
Voters have described scenes of complete chaos during Tuesday’s New York primaries, as people report being turned away from closed polling stations, and broken machines not allowing them to cast their vote. In Brooklyn residents at PS 73 in Bushwick reported that despite waiting in line since 6 a.m. in the morning workers told them that they couldn’t access the keys to the facility and informed them they should go home. “You can’t vote nor cast any type of ballot. They (the keys to the building) are in a locked box and no one has the key,” voter Torsha Childs wrote on Facebook.
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Last week, I wrote a post titled, Hillary Clinton Will Win New York, Because New York is Running a Banana Republic Primary. Here’s an excerpt: