What Went Down In The New York Primaries

The Working Families Party, a minor party in New York that often endorses Democratic candidates, cannot seem to catch a break tonight. Not only has the party’s candidate in the presidential race been routed (Sanders), but its candidate in a high-profile state Assembly special election to replace the former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, Yuh-Line Niou, lost to the Democratic candidate Alice Cancel.

It does look like Kasich will prevent a Trump delegate sweep in upstate New York. Nearly all precincts are reporting in Syracuse’s Onondaga County, and Trump is leading Kasich there 46 percent to 36 percent. Onondaga County is a majority of the 24th District, and it doesn’t look like Trump is doing well enough in the outlying counties of the 24th — Cayuga, Wayne and Oswego — to hit 50 percent overall there.

The Democratic exit poll — which has been re-calibrated to reflect Clinton’s larger-than-expected margin of victory — now has her winning 75 percent of the black vote in New York, along with 63 percent of the Hispanic vote. Clinton and Sanders split the white vote in New York almost evenly.