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Clinton, Trump expected to roll on

This combination of 2 photos shows George Stephanopoulos, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Stephanopoulos, co-anchor of ABC News' "Good Morning America,"underwent genetic testing to promote "Faces of America With Henry Louis Gates Jr.", and learned Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 that he has a genetic link to Secretary of State Clinton.
This combination of 2 photos shows George Stephanopoulos, left, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Stephanopoulos, co-anchor of ABC News' "Good Morning America,"underwent genetic testing to promote "Faces of America With Henry Louis Gates Jr.", and learned Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 that he has a genetic link to Secretary of State Clinton. AP

Democrats and Republicans vote in presidential primaries in five states Tuesday — Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island — with frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump favored to win in each state, adding to their delegate leads.

Former Secretary of State Clinton is getting close to clinching the Democratic nomination. Meanwhile, billionaire businessman Trump is looking more and more inevitable as the GOP nominee.

But Democrat Bernie Sanders, and Republicans Ted Cruz and John Kasich will soldier on, insisting — math aside — they still have a chance at derailing the frontrunners.

Trump has the easier path Tuesday.

He has a double-digit lead in all five states, ranging from 14 percentage points in Maryland to a monstrous 37-point lead in Delaware, according to Real Clear Politics.

Only in Pennsylvania is Cruz in second place, according to those polls. Kasich is in second in the other four states.

Clinton has double-digit leads in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

But Sanders could eke out a win in one or more of the other states, where Clinton’s leads range from 2.5 percentage points, in Rhode Island, to 7 points, in Delaware.

Up next? Indiana’s primaries on May 3, featuring a make-or-break moment for Cruz and the Stop Trump movement.

The delegate count

Where the race stands now

Democrats

2,382 to nominate

Clinton: 1,941

Sanders: 1,191

Republicans

1,237 to nominate

Trump: 845

Cruz: 559

Kasich: 148

This story was originally published April 25, 2016 at 10:06 PM with the headline "Clinton, Trump expected to roll on."

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