Democrat Hillary
Clinton and Republican Donald Trump swept to victory in Arizona presidential
primaries on Wednesday, boosting the bid in their parties for the race to the
White House.
With more than 70% of
the votes counted, Clinton was cruising ahead with 60% of the votes, and Trump
with nearly 46% in Arizona, one of three western states besides Utah and Idaho
to hold contests on Wednesday.
All major American media networks, based on these figures and lead, projected Trump and Clinton as winner of Arizona primaries. Official results are yet to be declared. “Thank you, Arizona,” Trump tweeted.
“Thank you to all the
wonderful volunteers who are working so hard for our campaign. You’re knocking
down barriers,” Clinton tweeted.
With an impressive
win in Arizona, Trump grabbed all the 58 delegates at stake in the State, thus,
increasing his total to 739 delegates and further increasing
the gap on
delegate count with his main Republican presidential primary rival Senator Ted
Cruz who has a delegate count of 425.
To win the Republican
presidential nominee, Trump needs 1,237 delegates.
He needs to win 52%
of the delegates in the rest of the Republican primaries. So far, the real
estate tycoon has won 19 States as against Cruz’s victory in eight States so
far.
In Arizona, Clinton’s
sole rival Senator Bernie Sanders had polled 36. 8% of the votes as against
more than 60% by the former Secretary of State.
Clinton currently has
1,670 delegates, which includes 1159 won by her in various States and 467 super
delegates who have pledged their support to her.
Sanders has 886
delegates including 829 won in State primaries and caucuses.
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