Surprising absolutely no one, just about every news outlet projected a Donald Trump landslide in New York’s GOP primary at 9:00:01 p.m. Tuesday night. This leaves plenty of time for the networks to cover Trump’s remarks and guess wildly at the exact number of delegates he will win.
Early exits show Trump poised for huge delegate sweep. He's at 58%–above 50% in all regions except the 'rural upstate.'
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) April 20, 2016
With fewer than 1 percent of returns counted, exit poll data suggests that Trump will easily win more than 50 percent of the vote.
And everyone calls NY for Trump…
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) April 20, 2016
That thing we said would happen for the last two weeks happened
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) April 20, 2016
NBC projects Donald Trump will be the victor of the New York GOP primary in a "significant win." Dems still too early to call.
— Carrie Dann (@CarrieNBCNews) April 20, 2016
Based on our analysis of the exit poll data, ABC News projects that @realDonaldTrump will win the New York Republican primary.
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) April 20, 2016
ELECTION UPDATE:@FoxNews projects @realDonaldTrump will win the New York State Primary.
— BILL HEMMER (@BillHemmer) April 20, 2016
NEW YORK (AP) _ Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential primary in his home state of New York.
— Ken Thomas (@KThomasDC) April 20, 2016
.@CBSNews & other media use exit polls to project #Trump winner of #NYGOPPrimary shortly after 9:00p.m. poll closing.
— PETER MAER (@petermaer) April 20, 2016
US media projects that Donald Trump has won the New York primary contest https://t.co/CJypKPINAM pic.twitter.com/jcwUvRIlDK
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) April 20, 2016
#Trump triumph. I called him a "beached whale" after his loss in #Wisconsin. Well, he's Moby Dick tonight. #Cruz vamoosed from #NY fast.
— Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) April 20, 2016
"BREAKING: Guy wins home state!"
"As have all the other candidates"
"But this is New York!"
"Dems will win it in the fall"
"But he won NOW!"— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) April 20, 2016
Meanwhile, on the Democrat side:
Race between Clinton and Sanders too early to project a winner. Exit polls show a tight race. This is a shocker!
— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) April 20, 2016
Wow, based on CNN exit polls it is a tight race on Democratic side in NY. Hillary 52%-48%.
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) April 20, 2016
9pm: CNN "not able to make a projection" in the Dem race yet. Trump the winner in the GOP race. #NYPrimary
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 20, 2016
Here's the @EmpireStateBldg changing colors to deep red, signaling Trump win in the #NYPrimary pic.twitter.com/V5dnHQEWUH
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 20, 2016
HAIL HYDRA pic.twitter.com/ZICnyT5QjH
— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) April 20, 2016
— Hunter Schwarz (@hunterschwarz) April 20, 2016
https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/722596454070673408
CNN: Where they'll spend far more time fiddling with the colors of a noted building than they will showing actual candidate remarks.
— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) April 20, 2016
There might be some suspense after all if the Democrat race remains tight, meaning that Hillary Clinton’s blowout victory is a smaller blowout than expected.
Looking at exits after polls close, @HillaryClinton won't get the delegate blowout she might have hoped from adopted home state
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) April 20, 2016
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