IT SEEMS it could really happen, the most viciously personalised, all-round nasty presidential face-off imaginable: Hillary Clinton against her old pal Donald Trump. That was the main takeaway from the big wins the respective Democratic and Republican front-runners scored in five north-eastern primaries, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, on April 26th. Because, while both candidates had been expected to do well, and though Mrs Clinton’s grip on the Democratic nomination had already looked secure, the unexpectedly eye-watering totality of Mr Trump’s victories was potentially race-changing. As the Republican contest now swings westwards, for ten last state primaries, the party bigwigs scrabbling to Stop Trump have their work cut out; if he wins in Indiana on May 3rd, Mr Trump may be unstoppable.
To make up the ground he recently lost in Wisconsin—and get back on track for the requisite 1,237 delegates—he was estimated to need a little over 100 of the 118 elected delegates available this week. He won 109, on the back of his biggest wins in terms of vote-share yet. In New York on April 19th he cracked 50% of the vote for...Continue reading
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