Clinton, Trump look for big wins in New York

For frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Tuesday’s New York primaries will be — to borrow a Trumpism — “huge.”

Democrat Clinton, an adoptive New Yorker, and Republican Trump, a native, hold double-digit leads in the Empire State, according to an average of polls by Real Clear Politics.

Clinton, who once represented the state in the U.S. Senate, leads U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Brooklyn native, by almost 14 percentage points. Meanwhile, Trump has an almost 30-point lead over Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

Trump is looking to add 80-plus of the Empire State’s 95 GOP delegates. With 1,237 delegates needed to win the Republican nomination, Trump now leads 756 to 559 for U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and 144 for Kasich.

Meanwhile, Clinton will take the majority of New York’s 247 delegates — Democrats award delegates proportionately, based on the popular vote. With 2,382 delegates needed for the Democratic nomination, Clinton leads Sanders now 1,758-1,076, counting super-delegates.

Even better news for Clinton and Trump? The presidential race has left low-turnout, Western caucus states and, after New York, heads to states where the frontrunners hold big leads.

Democrats and Republicans vote April 26 in Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. In the three states with recent polling — Connecticut, Maryland and Pennsylvania — Clinton had leads ranging from nine to 23 percentage points. Trump, meanwhile, has leads ranging from 14 to 24 percentage points.

Even better for Trump, Kasich, third in the GOP delegate contest, is in second in two of the states. Only in Pennsylvania is Cruz in second — and there he trails by 18 percentage points.

This story was originally published April 18, 2016 at 4:35 PM with the headline "Clinton, Trump look for big wins in New York."