Emmanuel Ukudolo
US, April 27, 2016 – Front runner of the Republican Party, Donald J. Trump, continued to show his colleagues in the party that he remains the most popular candidate the party can produce ahead of the US election winning all five states in the Republican Primaries held on Tuesday.
Trump won in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, pushing his closest contenders, Senator Cruz and Governor Kasich who have teamed up against him totally out of the race. Trump had on Sunday described the team as mathematically dead.
“ They are mathematically dead and this act only shows, as puppets of donors and special interests, how truly weak they and their campaigns are. I have brought millions of voters into the Republican primary system and have received many millions of votes more than Cruz or Kasich… Additionally, I am far ahead of both candidates with delegates and would be receiving in excess of 60% of the vote except for the fact that there were so many candidates running against me”, he had said prior to the primaries.
Trump who got a boost with the win, called himself the Republican “presumptive nominee” ahead of the party’s national convention in July.
“Even if the media yearns to declare this race over, the path to 1,237 delegates remains narrow for Trump, and he just left the most favorable part of the map for him in the northeast,” the Donald Trump movement said in a statement.
Front runner of the Democratic Party, Hilary Clinton however won just four of the states, losing one to Sanders. She won in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsylvania while Sanders won Rhode Island.
Speaking at the Philadelphia Convention Center after the win, Hilary Clinton said her campaign was setting “bold, progressive goals” to improve lives in the US.
“We believe in the goodness of our people and the greatness of our nation,” she said.
