Former first lady Hillary Clinton and reality TV show host Donald Trump each emerged victorious from their respective party primaries in New York.
Both candidates ended a campaign stretch full of recent losses.
On the Republican side, Trump will still have to contend with two opponents attempting to deny him the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination outright. Meanwhile, since Democratic delegates are awarded proportionally, Clinton's New York victory won't push Bernie Sanders out of the race.
"We don't have much of a race anymore," Trump bragged from Trump Tower in Manhattan, claiming that Ted Cruz had been "just about mathematically eliminated" from getting the necessary delegates to win the nomination. "It's really nice to win the delegates with the votes," he said. "Nobody should be given delegates, which is a ticket to victory but not a fair ticket."
Clinton told her fans "The race for the Democratic nomination is in the home stretch, and victory is in sight. I believe there is much more that unites us than divides us."
Trump finished the night with around 60% of the vote, Kasich came in second with 25% and Cruz, third, with 14.5%.
Clinton lead Sanders with 58% of the democrats voting while Sanders finished with 42%.
Sanders reflected on his New York loss: "Today we took Secretary Clinton on in her home state of New York, and we lost," Sanders told reporters at a press briefing in Burlington, Vermont. He reminded his supporters he had come a "very, very, long way" and said there is still a "path" to victory.
"Even here in New York state you have a voting system which makes it impossible for independents to participate in the Democratic primary, that makes it impossible for people to register on the day of the election which many states do, which is going to result in a lower voter turnout than I would like to see," he said.
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