Latest news as it happens as Trump wins in Empire State and votes come in for Clinton and Sanders
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3.21am BST
Speaking at a victory rally at the Sheraton New York and bopping her head to Jay-Z’s Empire State of Mind, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton told the assembled crowd of supporters that “there’s no place like home.”
“We have won in every region in the country,” Clinton said. “New Yorkers, you’ve always had my back, and I’ve always tried to have yours. Today together we did it again, and I am deeply, deeply grateful.”
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3.09am BST
Forget momentum - tonight is all about delegates.
The Republican race has reached a critical stage in which every delegate counts. Before Tuesday, Trump led with 756, ahead of Cruz with 559 and Kasich with 144. After recent setbacks in Wisconsin and Wyoming, Trump’s path to an outright win has become precarious.
Related: Donald Trump secures much-needed primary win in New York
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Delegate news: Billionaire Republican frontrunner and newly minted New York victory Donald Trump appears to be on track to win at least 50% of the Republican vote in New York tonight, guaranteeing him all 14 of the state’s at-large delegates.
Given his current standing in congressional districts in the southern half of the state - where precinct results are coming in more quickly than upstate - Trump is well on his way to taking the lion’s share of tonight’s 81 district-bound delegates.
2.53am BST
John Kasich’s campaign, in lieu of a concession speech, has emailed supporters to announce that tonight’s results in New York “bring clarity” to the state of the Republican presidential primary, and how his campaign plans to go forward.
2.48am BST
With 38.1% of precincts reporting, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton has been declared the winner of the New York Democratic primary.
She currently leads Vermont senator Bernie Sanders 60.5% to 39.5% in the Empire State, a hard-won victory for the former senator from New York and a bitter loss for Sanders, who campaigned hard in New York with rally audiences that numbered in the tens of thousands.
2.43am BST
I’ve just been asked by a coworker why exit polls suggest that Clinton will beat Sanders by just four percentage points - that seems very different to the results so far, which show the former secretary of state over 20 percentage points ahead of the Vermont senator.
The explanation is relatively straightforward. Just 30% of the votes have been counted - at such an early point in the night, it’s likely that Clinton’s huge lead is simply because votes have been counted in areas where she has been more successful. Once all the votes are in, it’s likely that Sanders will have caught up considerably.
2.43am BST
I’ve just been asked by a coworker why exit polls suggest that Clinton will beat Sanders by just four percentage points - that seems very different to the results so far which show Clinton is over 20 percentage points ahead of the Vermont senator.
The explanation is relatively straightforward: Just 16% of the votes have been counted - at such an early point in the night, it’s likely that Clinton’s huge lead is simply because votes have been counted in areas where she has been more successful. Once all the votes are in, it’s likely that Sanders would have caught up considerably.
WNYC have a handy map which shows results alongside familiar neighborhood names. So far, Clinton is performing well in Soundview and Bruckner (in the Bronx) as well as the Upper East side. Sanders, meanwhile, is doing well in Greenpoint.
2.43am BST
Remember #NYValues? Looks like NYers do too. No sooner did the polls close at 9pm than it was announced Donald Trump had won in his home state. He just delivered a typically upbeat victory speech, saying: “I can think of nowhere that I would rather have this victory.” That victory was a foregone conclusion at least as far back as January when Ted Cruz first cast his aspersions about Trump’s “New York values”. It seemed like a strategic enough thing to say then – after all, New York comes so late in the primary season it typically doesn’t matter. But this year it did, and those much-repeated words have come back to haunt him.
For months Cruz has tried to explain away the ill-considered phrase, saying that he was talking about the politicians, not the people, among other things. But the soundbite has stuck with him, thanks in part to Trump, who last night accused him of outright hating New York and declaring “no New Yorker can work for Ted Cruz”. There are other things working against Cruz in the state, like the fact that there are almost no pockets of the evangelical conservatism he preaches, but essentially Trump is right: New York values mean a vote against Cruz.
2.41am BST
Continuing his speech, Donald Trump pledged to fix America’s economy, which he called his “wheelhouse.”
“We are gonna be so strong again, we are gonna be literally, legitimately so strong again,” Trump said. “We don’t have much of a race anymore, going by what I see on television. Senator Cruz... I’ve pretty much knocked the hell out of him.”
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2.37am BST
After the audience was concussed by Frank Sinatra’s New York, New York on full volume, billionaire Republican frontrunner Donald Trump told the assembled crowd of media and supporters at Trump Tower that “nobody is going to mess with us” when he is elected president.
“It’s just incredible,” Trump said, “I guess we’re close to 70%, and we’re gonna end at a very high level, and get a lot more delegates than anybody projected, even in their wildest dreams.”
2.29am BST
John Weaver, the top strategist for Ohio governor John Kasich, was confident early in the evening that his campaign would pick up some delegates in New York. He went on to note that Cruz’s collapse in the Empire State presages what will be a rough night for him next week.
“What is happening to Cruz in New York is corresponding with what we’re seeing in the other April 26 states,” Weaver said. “He’s cast in a very narrow lane.”
2.26am BST
Amber Jamieson reports from Williamsburg, where a “Beers for Bernie” event has already begun...
Polls close in 5 mins and the Beers for Bernie event in Williamsburg now has a decent crowd spread out. pic.twitter.com/zzmgPsYwY1
2.22am BST
Here’s video of the promised LED change at the Empire State Building:
2.21am BST
Ninety miles from New York, Ted Cruz debuted a new stump speech to a crowd of more than 100 people at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
2.21am BST
Bernie Sanders has zero margin for error tonight and early exit polls suggest he may just be walking that perfect line. He’s creaming Hillary Clinton by 72 points to 28 among voters under 30, according to early CNN exit polls, and he also has a significant lead among whites. The polls have been tightening in recent weeks, even before candidates turned their attention to New York. And it may be that the race has tightened more than anyone believed.
Nate Silvers has made a convincing case that, given enough time to make his case to the American public, Sanders will outperform expectations. But it could be too little, too late. There are only 17 contests left in this election cycle, and almost all of the big ones to come are closed primaries – as New York is – a fact that hurts Sanders.
2.18am BST
CNN has released its exit poll numbers - surveys of voters taken after they leave their voting place, which are considered the most accurate polling data available - and the numbers on the Republican side show the true breadth of Donald Trump’s victory in New York tonight.
The billionaire Republican frontrunner is shown to have won supermajorities of nearly every demographic group who voted in today’s Republican primary: men (59%), women (56%), all age groups 30 and older, whites (59%), and, perhaps most surprisingly, New Yorkers of all education levels.
2.06am BST
More on Donald Trump’s victory: The billionaire Republican frontrunner was widely expected to take New York, his home state and the headquarters of his real estate and media empire, but the night is far from over for Texas senator Ted Cruz and Ohio governor John Kasich, who are holding out hope that they will have been able to chip away enough at his support in targeted congressional districts to prevent a full sweep of the state’s 95 delegates.
2.01am BST
Well, that was quick!
Seconds after the polls closed in the Empire State, the Associated Press - as well as CNN, MSNBC, and most of the other networks - have called the New York Republican primary for billionaire frontrunner Donald Trump.
1.59am BST
Hillary Clinton is holding what she hopes will be a victory party in the ballroom of the Sheraton in Midtown because nothing says thank you New York quite like a night out in Times Square.
1.50am BST
Texas senator Ted Cruz, likely anticipating a bit of a thumping in the New York Republican primary, is giving remarks in Philadelphia tonight. The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs has captured an early-night concession by Cruz, who told the assembled supporters and press that Donald Trump would win tonight’s primary.
Cruz preemptively concedes that Trump will win New York tonight
Ted Cruz: America has always been her best when she is lying down with her back on the mat
1.44am BST
Good news for New York City voters: CNN will announce its projections of who will win tonight’s primary contests using the LED display on the Empire State Building, with different colors corresponding to the victor.
The Empire State Building, once the tallest building in the world, will turn dark blue if Hillary Clinton is projected as the winner, and light blue if Bernie Sanders is. On the Republican side, a Donald Trump victory will mean a dark, Sauron-esque red color, an unlikely victory by Ted Cruz would turn the top of the tower “coral,” in Jake Tapper’s words, and a victory by Ohio governor John Kasich would make the tower purple.
When CNN projects winners tonight, the Empire State building will light up https://t.co/1a8SwBgnNk #NYPrimary https://t.co/5CUP1HNPKu
1.29am BST
Ben Jacobs has an interesting historical throwback to the 1992 Democratic presidential primary, the last time that New York played much of a role in choosing a party nominee:
#TBT to the last time the New York primary matted and the #gaffe that was #gamechange https://t.co/OgjydG9ZuA pic.twitter.com/VRm58eVmbT
1.23am BST
Who will win in New York? Mona Chalabi has a primer on historic voting trends in the Empire State, expected results tonight and what their impact will be on Wednesday and beyond.
Related: Who will win in New York? Your cheat sheet for the presidential primary
1.07am BST
Good evening! For those just joining us, we’re less than an hour away from polls closing across the Empire State, where for the first time in a generation, a pair of close national races means that New York’s presidential primary election actually matters.
1.00am BST
The Cruz event is taking place in the atrium of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia where there are big glass windows looking down to Independence Hall. Unlike most traditional election nights there are no televisions and with a scheduled start of 7 PM, it’s likely that the event will wrap before polls close in New York at 9 PM. Cruz is likely to get blown out there and nab only a handful of the Empire State’s 95 delegates.
Scene at Cruz election night party pic.twitter.com/uWLwvD8fdx
12.52am BST
Bernie Sanders supporters slowly trickled into the “Beers for Bernie” event at Williamsburg bar Battery Harris this evening. Spicy margaritas and hot wings were $2 off to help punters “feel the Bern” (geddit?).
12.17am BST
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders is speaking to supporters at a campaign event in University Park, Pennsylvania as voting continues in the New York primary.
Watch it here:
12.09am BST
There was a steady stream of students in and out of the polling station at the State University of New York (Suny) at Albany, but vast numbers of them walked away disappointed at being unable to vote.
For many of them, the problem was that they’d turned in their voter registration or change of address forms to a third-party group on campus running a voter registration drive in March; those forms, turned in to a group the name of which no student could recall, never made it to the county Board of Elections before the registration deadline.
11.46pm BST
Are Bernie Sanders supporters spacing on the date?
Have spent 20 mins hanging at a Beers for Bernie event in Williamsburg and I am still the first and only attendee here, says bartender.
11.38pm BST
Illustrator Sophie Yanow drove to Albany, New York, to meet voters and sketch them. They told her who they voted for – and why.
Related: Meeting New York primary voters: sketches from upstate
11.11pm BST
A Texas evangelical, a Brooklyn Jew, and whatever Donald Trump claims to be are all competing to win the hearts and minds of America’s religious voters. But does all the posturing make a difference? Are Christians really swayed by Cruz’s Bible-thumping? How has Trump’s Islamophobic rhetoric affected Muslim voters? Does it matter to Jewish voters that Bernie Sanders went to Hebrew school?
In our new series “Who is God’s candidate?”, we seek to find out what religious Americans think of this year’s candidates. The first installment in our series focuses on Jewish voters. In the lead-up to the New York primary, we spoke to rabbis and members of multiple Jewish sects about how they plan to vote this year. Here are three takeaways.
10.53pm BST
Donald Trump is often fuzzy on the details of his policy proposals, but a New York Times report has detailed another area where what seem like minutiae might pose a problem for the billionaire Republican presidential candidate: the registration on one of his private planes has expired.
According to a Federal Aviation Administration document first noticed by the NYT, the registration for Trump’s Cessna 750 Citation X jet came to an end in January and is not currently in good standing with the FAA, which means that the jet may be forced out of commission for days or even weeks while its registration is updated.
10.25pm BST
New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has issued a statement regarding “numerous errors” in voter rolls in Brooklyn, joining a chorus of public officials who have called for an audit of the Bureau of Elections.
“It has been reported to us from voters and voting rights monitors that the voting lists in Brooklyn contain numerous errors, including the purging of entire buildings and blocks of voters from the voting lists,” de Blasio said in the statement.
10.11pm BST
New York’s strict voter registration rules sparked mounting frustration and anger among Bernie Sanders supporters on Tuesday as some discovered they were unable to vote in the primary election showdown with Hillary Clinton only after arriving at their local polling stations, report the Guardian’s Dan Roberts and Ciara McCarthy:
Related: New York's strict voter registration rules frustrate Sanders supporters
10.06pm BST
What could this portend, ahead of the crucial Indiana primary?
BREAKING: @realDonaldTrump to meet w/ @GovPenceIN at Governor's residence prior to Wednesday Indianapolis rally @rtv6 #INPrimary
9.55pm BST
Right around the corner from Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, is the polling station where Donald Trump voted this morning. Presumably for himself.
Spending time outside the Central Synagogue station, however, it was difficult to find any other Trump supporters.
9.39pm BST
Vampire Weekend frontman and Bernie Sanders campaign surrogate Ezra Koenig has declared that the New York Democratic primary results are fraudulent before the voting has even finished:
The New York primary is bullshit. Whoever wins - this is garbage. It's voter suppression. pic.twitter.com/M4hVyDljaG
9.25pm BST
Following widespread concern expressed by voters after the New York City Board of Elections confirmed that more than 125,000 voters in Brooklyn have been removed from voter rolls, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer has expressed “deep concern” and declared in a letter that his office will undertake an audit of the operations of the Board of Elections.
9.13pm BST
Nobody sounds coherent when their voice is slowed down by 50%, but BoingBoing’s modulation of Donald Trump’s speech in Rome, New York, makes his unusual speech patterns all the more apparent.
9.00pm BST
Buzzfeed has uncovered more links between the presidential campaign of billionaire Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and conservative online outlet Breitbart News - this time, an $8,000 payment to the site’s national security editor for “policy consulting.”
Citing Federal Election Commission filings that show Breitbart editor Sebastian Gorka was paid $8,000 by the Trump campaign in October of last year, the report adds another log to the fiery conversation about the conservative site’s close relationship with Trump and his campaign.
8.52pm BST
The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs took a look at the infighting in Donald Trump’s campaign on the eve of some of the most important primary contests this cycle:
Related: Donald Trump's campaign faces unprecedented rift amid delegate panic
8.33pm BST
Donald Trump’s eldest son has taken a swipe at the Republican party establishment, telling the Guardian that its nomination rules “made sense 200 years ago when someone lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere”.
Donald Trump Jr, accompanied by wife Vanessa and holding young daughter Chloe, voted for his father in midtown Manhattan at lunchtime and denied that the campaign has been outsmarted by rival Ted Cruz in the battle for delegates at state level.
8.08pm BST
Hector Santana, a building superintendent, said his support for Bernie Sanders motivated him to vote in his first primary election ever on Tuesday, reports the Guardian’s Ciara McCarthy from Brooklyn:
“I don’t vote in primaries,” he said. “But Bernie speaks a lot about fighting for what’s right so that’s why I voted today.”
8.00pm BST
At a farewell concert in Mexico City at the weekend, iconic singer Vicente Fernández included a message for Donald Trump, the Latin Times reports:
“From here we are saying, ‘que chingue a su madre!’ He thinks he is going to win, he is crazy,” Adela Micha reports the singer said in his explicit message. “If I ever come across him, I will spit him in the face and tell him to go fuck himself.”
“He thinks building the ‘Trump Wall’ will right every wrong in the United States,” Fox wrote. “Indeed, he’s built a huge mental wall around himself already, which doesn’t allow him to see the greatness of our people.”
Related: Former Mexican president Vicente Fox attacks Donald Trump's 'racist' ideas
7.47pm BST
The Sanders camp team is highlighting cases of mysteriously dropped voter registrations and other difficulties New Yorkers are reporting with voting:
This is a disgrace. Why are we making it so hard for people to participate in democracy?https://t.co/nNyyUUylsT
The request comes the same day a WNYC analysis revealed the largest decline in active registered Democrats statewide was in Brooklyn.
But new data provided by the city Board of Elections on Monday indicates it actually removed 126,000 Brooklyn Democrats from the rolls, according to executive director Michael Ryan. [...]
7.43pm BST
The New York Daily News is reporting broken voting machines at some polling stations and other trouble as New York City votes:
New York primary voting at some Brooklyn and Queens polling places was a disaster Tuesday morning — with early morning voters arriving to broken machines and belated polling.
Queens resident George Mack said he came to P.S. 52 in Springfield Gardens to vote right at 6 a.m. He, and about 50 other early voters, learned all three machines on site were broken. Volunteers at the school told voters to place their ballots in a slot, and they would all get processed later. [...]
Brooklyn polling site closed at 7:50am #NYPrimary2016 pic.twitter.com/rPcgsbwCQO
7.36pm BST
Video – Bernie Sanders, religion and Aipac: what matters to Jewish voters
Related: Who is God's candidate? Jewish voters speak out ahead of New York primary
7.35pm BST
True to form, Sanders is on to the next state before the current state is done voting. Pennsylvania votes next Tuesday, along with Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware and Maryland.
Expectations? Sanders starts Eerie event right off the bat: "you know what? I think we're going to win Pennsylvania" pic.twitter.com/nhUVEXwJBb
7.31pm BST
The Guardian’s Lauren Gambino caught Michael Griesinger, 38, an emergency room doctor, outside a polling station in Brooklyn.
Griesinger said he voted for Bernie Sanders because he agreed with the candidate on a range of issues, especially income inequality.
7.28pm BST
Here’s a new video offering circulated by the Trump camp – two-and-a-half-minutes of random montage heavily featuring people of color who support Trump backed by Quad City DJ’s C’Mon N’ ride it (the Train), followed by a minute of a singer singing about “the Trump train.”
LETS GO AMERICA! Time to take back
our country, and #MakeAmericaGreatAgain
Watch video & go#VoteTrump! https://t.co/lsKdqGFyvQ
7.18pm BST
Never doubt dad.
"I've learned to never doubt my father's abilities," Donald Trump Jr. says before voting for his dad in midtown pic.twitter.com/z19P5ctVFu
7.07pm BST
Megan Carpentier finds a line of voters in Wappingers Falls, New York, anxious for a polling station to open at noon:
The polls opened at 6am in New York today - but only if you were voting in New York City, the Long Island counties of Nassau and Suffolk, the four counties immediately north of New York City (Westchester, Rockland, Orange and Putnam) and Erie County, which contains Buffalo.
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A Trump surrogate told CNN that Ted Cruz has been bribing delegates and she has seen it with her own eyes.
It was a surprising charge in part because by all appearances Cruz’s dominance of Trump at capturing delegates has owed to the Cruz camp’s vastly superior organization and familiarity with the rules of the game.
6.45pm BST
New York representative Peter King, who has supported calls for surveillance of US mosques but said that Donald Trump went to far in calling for a ban on Muslim immigrants, tells MSNBC that he will “take cyanide” if Ted Cruz gets the nomination.
.@RepPeterKing: : "I'm not endorsing @tedcruz. I hate @tedcruz. I think I'll take cyanide if he got the nomination." pic.twitter.com/L1sqPek7uQ
Congratulations to Ted Cruz on his endorsement by the SDLP https://t.co/ozKQbDQK9j
6.25pm BST
The Hillary Clinton campaign is live blogging New York primary day. We’ve scrolled through and discerned a dearth of Bernie Sanders coverage. #skewed
Consider this bit of Q&A:
3. Hillary’s lead: a big deal?
It sure is. Hillary is currently leading by a wider pledged delegate margin than President Obama ever did in 2008. That’s important because no Democratic candidate has ever been nominated without winning the most pledged delegates. If Hillary wins New York even by the slimmest of margins, the path to a delegate lead becomes very difficult for Senator Sanders.
It's #PrimaryDay in New York. Get all you need to know on our live blog: https://t.co/LB1MIvu39F pic.twitter.com/pXFWgcZPDt
6.09pm BST
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who previously said he was voting for Donald Trump but that that did not constitute an endorsement, now admits that he is endorsing Donald Trump.
“Why not say, ‘I’m Rudy Giuliani, I mean a lot in New York politics, I endorse Donald Trump?’” a CNN host asked Giuliani in a morning TV appearance.
6.06pm BST
The Guardian’s Megan Carpentier spots some creative advertising on the way upstate:
Hopewell Junction, New York. Primary Day. pic.twitter.com/aUlCeX2KAE
6.03pm BST
“I don’t think we need another politician,” says Mary Cummings in West Seneca, New York:
Voter Voice: Mary Cummings likes @realDonaldTrump because he's a businessman, not "another politician." #NYPrimary pic.twitter.com/u5rhlWq4ZT
5.58pm BST
Garrett O’Connor, a labor organizer in Brooklyn, said he was only able to cast a provisional ballot on Tuesday despite changing his party registration before the deadline, reports the Guardian’s Ciara McCarthy:
O’Connor said he was previously affiliated with the Working Families Party before deciding to change his affiliation to the Democratic Party in October so that he could vote in Tuesday’s primary.
5.36pm BST
Here’s a clip from Hillary Clinton’s appearance on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, which aired Monday night. They went to lunch at the Carnegie Deli on 7th Avenue.
“It’s awkward eating in front of the press,” she says. “Anything that makes you look silly.”
5.27pm BST
Wonder who these people voted for...#NYPrimary pic.twitter.com/4QWVdT3rQy
5.21pm BST
The Democratic campaigns get out the vote on Twitter:
Go vote, New York. It'll only take you one try. https://t.co/gRqmpE5EVh #PrimaryDay pic.twitter.com/H7bPYy5Yuu
Every single vote for Bernie is important. Vote Bernie Sanders today in New York!https://t.co/w4zRk7IHl9
5.18pm BST
If Bernie Sanders finishes as runner-up in New York, it won’t have been for lack of trying to reach voters. In addition to staging mega rallies in at least three of the five boroughs and appearances everywhere, the Sanders camp outspent Clinton 2-1 on TV advertising, NBC News reports:
Sanders outspent Clinton over airwaves in NY by a 2-1 margin, per our data. Little spending on GOP side pic.twitter.com/8IVjhc2kOT
5.14pm BST
Just north of New York City in the village of Sleepy Hollow, first made famous by Washington Irving’s book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the polling place at the Fraternal Order of Eagles post was quiet just before noon from the outside, writes the Guardian’s Megan Carpentier:
But inside, poll workers confirmed that there was more voter traffic that in the average primary.
As they called the county board of elections to ask what to do about a reporter – The Guardian was the first media outlet to ever stop by the site, according to the long-time officials – one of two voters filling out their forms asked for clarification on whether the delegates on the ballot were pledged to a candidate and how he was supposed to pick six.
“You need a PhD to figure this out,” he muttered to himself, walking back to his booth to finish filling out his ballot.
4.55pm BST
Imagining Trump taking the oath of office:
Oh God, the fingers. pic.twitter.com/cSwC6SXvIl
"It was a proud moment" @realDonaldTrump says about casting a vote for himself
4.45pm BST
At the Democratic national convention in July, 719 people will cast votes for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders to be the presidential nomination who were not selected at any primary or caucus, writes Guardian political reporter Ben Jacobs:
These are the so-called superdelegates, but it is not their role at the convention, nor any special powers or abilities, that makes them super. It is their stupendous ability to attract controversy.
Related: Who are the Democratic superdelegates and where did they come from?
4.29pm BST
The New York candidates vote.
4.21pm BST
Like British parliamentary elections in the 18th century, the Republican presidential primary in 2016 may be decided in rotten boroughs, writes Guardian political reporter Ben Jacobs:
While the rotten boroughs in Georgian England were the long since abandoned sites of medieval towns where aristocratic landowners could handpick members of parliament, the Republican rotten boroughs are vibrant, heavily populated urban areas in places like New York and Los Angeles.
Related: Republican 'rotten boroughs' could clinch nominee thanks to delegate quirk
4.12pm BST
Video has surfaced of Ohio governor John Kasich grabbing a reporter’s recorder on Saturday in a minor fit of pique over an inconvenient question: how does he expect to win a general election given that he has only won his home state in the course of the primaries?
“But if you’ve only won Ohio,” begins the reporter, identified by The Week as Financial Times journalist Demetri Sevastopulo.
John Kasich responds angrily to @DimiSevastopulo's question on winning only 1 state in Republican race pic.twitter.com/MWAZbTrP6D
4.08pm BST
“Three million people in the state of New York who are independents have lost their right to vote in the Democratic or Republican primary, that’s wrong,” Sanders tells a voter in midtown who says he is a registered independent but would like to vote for Sanders.
WATCH: @BernieSanders tells independent voter by Times Square: "You have a right to vote" https://t.co/1dXt1G3Cauhttps://t.co/PztjYBywWU
I get the frustration with closed primaries. But isn't the time to deal with those, and adjust strategy accordingly, like 6 months ago?
3.56pm BST
The Donald Trump campaign has, for the benefit of the media, advertised the location where Donald Trump Jr, the scion, will vote for his father.
Omitted are the polling locations where Ivanka and Eric Trump will – oops. They failed to register.
3.49pm BST
New York city council member David Greenfield has called on Jewish Democratic voters to vote against Bernie Sanders:
If you're a Jewish Dem voter please vote AGAINST Sanders today for his shocking criticism of Israel's right to defend itself against terror
Sanders did not describe himself as a secular Jew but he did allude strongly to his heritage by saying that he spent “many months of my life when I was a kid in Israel”. He was also careful to describe himself as “100% pro-Israel”.
But what was unprecedented about his intervention was that he broke the unwritten rule that has held firm in US presidential races for decades: that candidates emphasize their commitment to supporting Israel while maintaining virtual silence over the Palestinian side of the Middle Eastern equation.
Related: Candidates spar over Israel and fate of Palestinians in Democratic debate
3.44pm BST
There’s a call in the comments for the feeling in New York on primary day...
Anyone in NY-how's turnout? The mood? Thanks!
On-site coordinators said at 9:30 that traffic had been steady all morning, with short lines during the rush hour, when a large percentage of the borough’s residents commute into Manhattan for work.
They reported only a few problems with voters who weren’t aware that they needed to be registered as a Democrat or Republican to vote today.
3.39pm BST
On the 21st anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, in which a truck bombing attack on a federal building killed 168 and wounded more than 680, senator minority leader Harry Reid has renewed his call for senate hearings for the lead prosecutor in the case – Merrick Garland, now a circuit court judge and president Obama’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy.
21 years ago today, Judge Garland oversaw the prosecution of those involved in the OKC bombing and adhered to the law every step of the way.
Republicans are treating this good man very unfairly, especially when you consider what Garland has done for US. https://t.co/CYj0b3dZbf
3.25pm BST
At a rally in Buffalo, New York, last night, Donald Trump confused 9/11, the date of the terrorist attacks that brought down the World Trade Center, and 7/11, the convenience store chain.
He said:
I was down there, and I watched our police and our fireman down on 7/11 down at the World Trade Center right after it came down, and I saw the greatest people I’ve ever seen in action, I saw the bravest people I’ve ever seen...
3.19pm BST
Police arrested the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream at the US Capitol on Monday as they protested against the influence of money in politics, writes the Guardian’s Amanda Holpuch:
Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen were arrested while participating in the Democracy Spring protests, a two-week series of demonstrations at the US Capitol. Since the protests began on 11 April, 12 people have handcuffed themselves to scaffolding in the building’s rotunda and more than 1,200 people have been arrested.
The demonstrations are not affiliated with any presidential candidate, but are calling on politicians at all levels of government “to commit to fight for reform to save our democracy and ensure political equality”.
Related: 'Bernie's Yearning': Ben & Jerry's duo hit the road for Sanders in Iowa
3.07pm BST
The approach of the top local tabloids to the day is about what you’d expect. The New York Post goes with a fake story about fears in the Clinton camp of a Sanders upset, and the Daily News slugs Donald Trump in the gut one last time on the way out the door, with a kick in the pants for good measure for Rex Ryan, the National Football League coach who introduced Trump last night in Buffalo.
That Bernie Sanders peeking out from behind the Empire State Building on the cover of the Post is pretty funny, though.
Today's cover: Hillary is feelin' the Bern https://t.co/Xb1xhr24RK pic.twitter.com/zHhtt6STBT
Today's front page...
HE'S WITH STUPID, TOO!
Dopey ex-Jets coach Ryan supports bigot Trump https://t.co/pDUH2aAuel pic.twitter.com/Zb6Ucny6MZ
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Hello, and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House.
It’s primary day in New York, where voters are enjoying a rare sense of influence in a pair of close national races. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton hopes that polling averages showing her in the lead by double digits tell a truth that the crowds of thousands who have gravitated to her rival, Bernie Sanders, do not. They’re in a fight for 247 Democratic delegates, to be awarded proportionally.
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