Trump Wins Five States, Clinton Wins Three; Two Races Left To Be Called; Sanders Wins Rhode Island
JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: If he wins Pennsylvania with anywhere near or number like that, he will go back to those people and say you have to go home and look and your neighbors in the eye, and look what I did in your state, you have vote for me. So the political argument, the moral argument for Donald Trump to get these uncommitted delegates will be help the great deal if that number stays anywhere close to that. If he's at 61 percent in a big diverse complicated state like Pennsylvania, that's a wow. That I don't know if he's going to stay that high, we only have 2 percent of the vote out in Pennsylvania but if he's above 50, that's a significant win. And every degree he moves up above 50, Wolf, increases the argument when he personally and this is what this will come too if he's short of 1,237 after California, this will come to personal phone calls, meeting with these delegates, he will have a powerful case to make that if you're going to go home, to scratching were I'm getting 76 percent of the vote is that holds up, you can't look your, you know, you can't look your neighbor in the eye and say I didn't vote for Donald Trump on the first ballot. That is what Mr. Trump hopes for tonight with the big Pennsylvania win. We only get two for ahead of ourselves but as this map fills in, it's again another very impressive win.</s>WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Take a look at Rhode Island for a second on the Republican side because it's very interesting. Right now in Rhode Island you can see Ted Cruz with almost half in the voters in. He's got 10.1 percent, you need at least 10 percent that threshold to get anything. If he gets under 10 percent, he gets zero in Rhode Island.</s>KING: And if you see Ted Cruz, can you imagine a scenario where Ted Cruz gets shut out? Five states, you are trying to make the case that you are the clear alternative to Donald Trump and you get shut out or you walk away with fewer delegates, than take in count on two hands of fingers left over, that's why again, Donald Trump's political argument to the uncommitted delegates, Donald Trumps political argument, if you get to a contested convention is helped greatly if he can go to state after state after state where he can point to his margins of victory especially late in the campaign. Now, if you have a contested convention momentum into that convention what matter and if Donald Trump is five for five tonight, I know Ted Cruz is in Indiana tonight saying I'm going to make that my firewall, right now he's losing in Indiana and the logic of politics tells you that Donald Trump is going to have a big night tonight and at least starts into next week with some momentum.</s>BLITZER: Yes, he has 60 percent so far and all and four of those states still waiting for Maryland. Let's see how he does. Let's go back over to Jake and Dana. I know you guys are getting to more insight right now into how they've managed do this, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but I just want to remind our viewers we're standing by to hear from the big winners. They're going to both be speaking, we have live coverage of that coming up.</s>JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: And of course we've called projected three states for Hillary Clinton as of now, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. And that let me bring in our political director David Chalian because the big question is, how did she do it? Who were the voters that turned out in the states of Maryland and Pennsylvania?</s>DAVID CHALIAN, CNN POLITICAL DIRECTOR: So let's look at two key groups for her supporters tonight, let's start in Maryland and we're looking at woman first here Jake. She wins women voters in Maryland 67 percent to Bernie Sanders 31 percent, women made up 61 percent of the Maryland Democratic Primary electorate tonight. Let's look at women in Pennsylvania, where they made up 59 percent of the electorate tonight and she wins them 59 percent to 41 percent. Now let's look at non-white voters, this has also been a Clinton strength. In Maryland 68 percent on non-white voters go for Clinton and 30 percent for Sanders. They made up 57 percent of the electorate in Maryland. Pennsylvania it's more of a white electorate, but the non-white voters were 29 percent of the electorate. Hillary Clinton got 64 percent of them. Bernie Sanders got 36 percent of them. You take non-white voters, you take women voters, in that kind of turnout with those numbers for Hillary Clinton, that is what is putting her so far ahead of him not just tonight but quite frankly, throughout this Democratic contest.</s>TAPPER: Fascinating and David, on the Republican side the number hovering over every single other number that we declare this evening is 1,237. That's the number of delegates needed for a Republican candidate to clench the nomination, and it is the majority and there's a question about whether or not Donald Trump will be able to achieve it. He certainly had a strong showing tonight and maybe he will achieve it, but what do voters think about the prospect if no one secures that number, whom should the delegates award the nomination to at the convention?</s>CHALIAN: You're right, Jake, there may be a question about whether or not Donald Trump gets that number. There is no question among primary voters as to what should happen if he doesn't. He should get the nomination according to him. Take a look at this, in Connecticut if no one wins the 1,237. Nobody hits that magic number, 67 percent of the Connecticut primary voters today said the nomination should go to the person that has won most votes in primary and caucuses process, only 29 percent say, it should go to the best candidate for the delegates to decide in Cleveland. Take a look at that another state Maryland where 65 percent say it should go to the primary winner if everyone falls shortly of 1,237, 32 say, 32 percent say to the best candidate. And in Pennsylvania we asked the same question, 70 percent, of Pennsylvania Republican primary voters, no matter who they voted for tonight say that if you fall short the guy winning the most votes in these caucuses and primaries, should be the nominee, 27 percent say it should be the best candidate.</s>TAPPER: Fastening and Dana Bash, whether it is their concept of simple fairness or whether Donald Trump's arguments are starting to take hold, this is more bad news for the never Trump voters and forces out there. A majority, a significant majority in some cases of voters in these states, Republican say, give it to the guy with the highest number of delegates even if it's not a majority.</s>DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: And the most interesting number of all those states that David just put up was Pennsylvania because if 70 percent say that it should be the guy who wins, that's a very big deal in a state where 54 of the delegates are going to be completely unbound even on the very first ballot at the convention. So if he does fall a little bit short, he has an argument that he can go make do them that it looks like according to the exit polls that they will be receptive to.</s>TAPPER: And looking beyond the convention, it is a very significant number considering the fact that Pennsylvania is a battle ground state. It is a state that Donald Trump has said he hopes to be able to turn red. So Anderson, as we throw it back to you, think about that fact, does the Republican national committee want to annoy, irritate, aggravate that many Republican voters in a state so important?</s>ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: And that's been the question we've been asking now for months as we watch and wait for Secretary Clinton to make her victory speeches tonight and Donald Trump as well. Let's turn back to our panel. On the Republican side, how does the race now change? I mean Donald Trump has certainly ...</s>GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST: A sweep.</s>COOPER: ... a sweep. I mean it's major, I mean above 60 percent.</s>BORGER: And I would argue that he's performed above expectations.</s>COOPER: Right.</s>BORGER: So I mean everybody thought he was going do well, but this is kind of at the level that he won in his home state across a bunch of states here. A handful of states. I'm not sure what the exact numbers are going to turn out to be and I think that that would lead you to believe and we don't know numbers of that turnout or anything else, but I think it would lead you to believe that something has turned ...</s>MICHAEL SMERCONISH, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: There's a feeling that come in ability.</s>BORGER: Something is happening here.</s>SMERCONISH: It's going up in inability.</s>BORGER: Exactly.</s>COOPER: For all that talk of the ceiling that Donald Trump had.</s>BORGER: Of the 35 percent and it's done.</s>SMERCONISH: I think there's a psychological barrier about to be broken because I'm keeping a close eye on John King's the map and it seems like Donald Trump is getting hopefully close to 1,000. There's something about breaking 1,000 ...</s>BORGER: Yeah.</s>SMERCONISH: ... whether it's tonight or sooner after where he's win almost length of 1,237.</s>DAVID AXELROD, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Well, I mean, well, you know, how do you -- I'm just sitting here trying to imagine how you manage your convention where this guys gets close, he's mounting these big numbers, you've got candidates, alternative candidates who are going, you know, 0 for five here ...</s>COOPER: Right.</s>AXELROD: ... and winning a delegate and you say you know what, I'm going to pick that guy. I mean how does that work? That just I think that's open rebellion.</s>BORGER: I mean, how does Kasich make the electability argument, by the way, Mr. One for -- what does Trump call him, one for?</s>AXELROD: One for 41.</s>BORGER: 41, right.</s>NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER: And in some ways, it diminishes the importance of Indiana. Ted Cruz has been going all around saying, you know, it's all on Indiana, so he goes in there and maybe he wins it at this point of Donald Trump is head probably because I think he has got this momentum. So, you know, I mean mere argument just gets more difficult the more that Trump wins.</s>VAN JONES, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: That I think, I don't want to get too far away from the things that might actually matter. This is a bizarre outcome. I just -- I'd refuse to adapt to the absurdity of what's going on. John K. I just refuse to adapt to it.</s>COOPER: What does that mean?</s>HENDERSON: What does that -- oh my god.</s>JEFFREY LORD, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: We don't know we already even what we have in the White House for the Trump side.</s>COOPER: Can you also be more specific of which crazy absurd thing you're talking about?</s>AXELROD: I'm here to help you.</s>LORD: You're in a safe place.</s>JONES: John Kasich, I just, I don't agree with him, he has been a governor. He has been a successful governor. He was one of the architects of the Newt Gingrich revolution. He changed America, this guy should not have won state and like pancakes today. He should have a lot more than pancake.</s>BORGER: Van, you can see that about crazy, crazy thing or ...</s>SMERCONISH: John Kasich is the only one among the Republicans who beats both Democrats in Pennsylvania. If you win Pennsylvania and Ohio, you win and yet he's getting clobbered by Trump.</s>HENDERSON: Right, exactly.</s>JONES: And if -- I just take there's some, there's -- we are in real danger that we start lowering our own standards about what we think matters. Fine, I know -- something's happening out there and he's real. You can't deny, you can't ignore it, but you should be able to govern. You should be able to speak respectfully. You should be able to pass the standard of a third grade class before you're on your way to being president.</s>AXELROD: But then you look at this numbers -- you look at this numbers and people ..</s>BORGER: People like Donald Trump.</s>AXELROD: ... are completely angry ...</s>BORGER: Yeah.</s>AXELROD: They feel betrayed, we see it week after week after week and they want the guys is going to punch the system in the nose not the guy ...</s>COOPER: And by the way where Secretary Clinton is about to emerge and we'll obviously bring her comments live as we listen to -- I believe it's "eye of the tiger".</s>SARAH ELIZABETH CUPP, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: You don't -- which obviously is not the voters are angry. You know they like, they want a different tone. I can understand that. What I have a difficult time understanding is that electability has become a non-priority. And here we have Hillary Clinton coming to the stage I'm guessing.</s>COOPER: And we can continue talking as we watch her approach. It will probably be a little while. (</s>CROSSTALK CUPP: No, but if you want like so right of thing. If you want the guy that can really, you know, punch the system in the throat, doesn't that guy have to get elected to do it?</s>AXELROD: Yeah, well that's to both parties electability hasn't been a very consuming passion of voters on either party and that may not be that unusual.</s>COOPER: And also what have Trump is more electable.</s>BORGER: And that was the argument ...</s>CUPP: Trump is more electable than Cruz but he is not more electable than Kasich in general.</s>LORD: He is -- he is. When you ...</s>HENDERSON: I mean he's clearly more electable.</s>COOPER: And lets -- as Secretary Clinton takes the stage, we saw former president Bill Clinton coming in with her. He's not seem like he is standing on the stage with her during those day (ph). We've see another occurrences before. Let's listen in.</s>HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Thank you. Thank you so much. Wow! Thank you, Pennsylvania! What a great night. I want to -- I want to thank everyone. I want to thank everyone. Thank you all so much. Wow! I just want to thank all of you, everyone who came out to vote, here in Pennsylvania and across Maryland and Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island. I am so grateful to all our volunteers, our organizers, our community leaders. Everyone who worked their hearts out and I want to thank the leaders here in Pennsylvania. Thank you Governor Wolf, thank you Senator Casey. Thank you Congressman Cartwright and thank you so much Mayor Kennedy for your great help. And of course I want to thank the 42nd president of the United States, my husband. Now, with your help we're going to come back to Philadelphia for the Democratic National Convention, with the most votes and the most pledged delegates. And we will unify our party to win this election and build an America where we can all rise together, an America where we lift each other up instead of tearing each other down. So we need you to keep volunteering, keep talking to your friends and neighbors. Please join the more than 1.1 million people who have already contributed @hillaryclinton.com. Look, I know there are still too many barriers holding too many Americans back, but despite what other candidates say, we believe in the goodness of our people and the greatness of our nation, and if anyone doubts that, just let them travel across this country as I've done in this campaign the past year hearing people's stories, learning about their struggles, listen to the quiet determination of the working parents I met last week in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. They are doing everything they can to provide opportunities to their children in an economy where there's still aren't enough good-paying jobs. Listen to the mothers who lost children to gun violence and encounters with the police. They're turning their sorrow into strategy and their mourning into a movement, a movement for justice and dignity. Listen to the nurse I met this weekend in New Haven, Connecticut who worked for years to build a middle class life and raise a family, but then her luck changed. She was diagnosed with breast cancer and used up all her savings and her sick time. Soon she was facing foreclosure and the prospect of losing the home she loved for more than 20 years and here's what she said to me. My daughter and I live in fear of the day that we might come home and have a lock on the door. We're in pain. We're hurting. We were and are the backbone of this country, the middle class. We're not asking for a handout. We just want to be treated fairly. And she is -- she is speaking for so many people across our country who feel beaten down, left out and left behind. People who have worked hard and have done their part, but just can't seem to get ahead and find it tough even to get by. Now under neither all these worries together we are going to come together and we are going to solve the problems we face. And you know ... You know, I am aware that too many people -- too many people feel at the mercy of forces too big for anyone to control and they just worry that those of us in politics put our own interests ahead of the national interests. The faith that we can make things better, that we can give our kids a better future than we had is at the heart of who we are as a nation. And it's one of many reasons that being American has always been such a blessing and our campaign is about restoring people's confidence in our ability to solve problems together by delivering results that help people follow their own dreams. That's why we're setting bold, progressive goals backed up by real plans that will improve. After all, that is how progress gets made. We have to be both dreamers and doers. And as a great Democratic president once said, there's nothing wrong with America that can't be cured by what's right with America. So here's what I believe, I believe we can create more good jobs with rising incomes, jobs that provide dignity, pride and a middle class life. We can renew our democracy by overturning citizens united. We can lift up people and places who have been left out from our inner cities to aplasia, in every manufacturing town, hallowed out when the factory closed, every community scared by substance abuse and addiction, every home where a child goes hungry, that's what we Democrats believe in and that's what we know is possible. So we will build on a strong progressive tradition from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama! And I applaud Senator Sanders and his millions of supporters for challenging us to get unaccountable money out of our politics and giving greater emphasis to closing the gap of inequality and I know together we will get that done. Because whether you support Senator Sanders or you support me, there's much more that you unite us than divides us. We all agree that wages are too low and inequality is too high, that Wall Street can never again be allowed to threaten Main Street and we should expend Social Security not cut or privatize it. We Democrats agree that college should be affordable to all and student debt shouldn't hold anyone back. We Democrats agree that every single American should and must have quality, affordable health care. We agree that our next president must keep our country safe, keep our troops out of another costly ground war in the Middle East. And we Democrats agree that climate change is an urgent threat, and it requires an aggressive response that can make America the clean energy super power of the 21st century, and we Democrats agree on defending all of our rights, civil rights and voting rights, workers' rights and women's rights, LGBT rights and rights for people with disabilities. So in this election we will have to stand together and work hard to prevail against candidates on the other side who would threaten all those rights and pit Americans against each other. They would make it harder to vote, not easier. They would deny women the right to make our own reproductive health care decisions. They would round up millions of hard working immigrants and deport them. They would demonize and discriminate against hard-working terror hating Muslims- Americans who we need in the fight against radicalization and both of the top candidates in the Republican Party deny climate change even exist. Now, the other day Mr. Trump accused me of playing the, quote, "woman card". Well if fighting for women's health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the woman's card, then deal me in. So my friends, if you are a Democrat, an independent or a thoughtful Republican, you know, their approach is not going to build an America where we increase opportunity or decrease inequality. So instead of letting them take us backwards, we want America to be in the future business. That's why I want you to keep imagining a tomorrow where instead of building walls, we're breaking down barriers. We are making it more likely that Americans will be part of a prosperous inclusive, decent society. We're imagining a tomorrow where every parent can find a good job and every grandparent can enjoy a secure retirement. We're imaging a tomorrow where no child grows up in the shadow of discrimination or under the specter of deportation and where every child -- every child has a good teacher and a good school no matter what zip code that child lives in. And imagine a tomorrow where any young person can graduate from college debt-free. We're going to imagine a tomorrow where hard work is honored, families are supported, streets are safe and communities are strong and where love Trumps hate. That is -- that is the future I want. I want that future for my granddaughter and for all of our children and grandchildren. Now, think of this. Our nation was born right here in Philadelphia. Our declaration of independence and constitution were signed just a few blocks away and ever since, even through dark and difficult chapters of our history, the idea of America has shown through. At our best we are as Robert Kennedy said, a great country, an unselfish country and a compassionate country, but America's greatness is not a birth right. It must be earned by every generation. So please join us, join us, go to hillaryclinton.com, text "JOIN" 47246, volunteer, contribute, compete, let's go forward and let's win the nomination and in July let's return as a unified party. Thank you so much.</s>TAPPER: Hillary Clinton declaring victory three states have been projected to fall in her column this evening, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. It was really a general election speech she seemed to be giving in many ways. She commended her Democratic primary opponent independent Senator Bernie Sanders talking about how he has been pushing to get big money out of politics, but really so many of the phrases and even slogans that she used in her speech were, direct responses to the campaign of Donald Trump. She talked about instead of building walls we should be breaking down barriers. She talked about when Donald Trump said that she was playing the woman's card. She said if that's the fighting for women's pay equity is playing the woman's card then deal me in and then of course this phrase love Trumps hate, not a so subtle reference to the man whom she may well end up facing in the general election there.</s>BASH: No question about it, this is somebody who is very ready to pivot to the general election. You heard that not only in the things you were just describing, the way that she focused on Donald Trump, but also the kind words that she had for Bernie Sanders. You know, kind of effectively thanking him for the contributions that he has made in the Democratic primary as opposed to, you know, whacking, reportedly as we've seen in the past.</s>TAPPER: And speaking of which Wolf Blitzer, you have a projection for us.</s>BLITZER: We do have a projection. A win, a win for Bernie Sanders. CNN projects Bernie Sanders is the winner of the Rhode Island Democratic presidential primary. That's his first win of the night. So far Hillary Clinton has won three states and Bernie Sanders wins in Rhode Island. Here is the wins so far on the Republican side. A clean sweep for Donald Trump all five very big night for Donald Trump he wins Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware. Big wins for Hillary Clinton tonight as well, three big wins so far Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. Now Rhode Island goes to Bernie Sanders a win for Bernie Sanders in Rhode Island. That's his first win. We're still waiting for Connecticut to we're still waiting for Connecticut to -- we'll still waiting for Connecticut, we'll see what's going on there. We're waiting also to hear from Donald Trump. He's about to give a big victory speech. He just won five -- all five of the Republican presidential primaries. We'll take a quick break, we'll be right back.