For progressives it's sometimes hard to know whether there's more delight to be had in the plight of Donald Trump or Ted Cruz, but Tuesday’s New York primary certainly delivered pleasure on the Cruz side of that equation. Trump took more than 60 percent of the popular vote to Cruz's 15 percent—a shellacking for the Texas senator, who will likely walk away without a single delegate. Nick Gass reports:
According to The Associated Press' allocation, Trump has received 89 of the 95 delegates, while John Kasich, who finished a distant second with 25 percent, picked up three delegates. (Three more are not yet allocated.) The governor of Ohio still trails Florida Sen. Marco Rubio in the overall delegate count, despite Rubio having dropped out of the race more than a month ago.
The Texas senator, who tried to explain his "New York values" remark this week as repeating Trump's own words from a 1999 "Meet the Press" interview, failed to resonate in a state where he had hoped to at least pick off a few delegates here and there.
Hmm, turns out when you tell people they suck, they don't like you. Cruz must have missed that cue during early childhood sandbox play. Anyway, it feels good, no? Even though Trump got a win. We can root for his demise another time. On Tuesday, the spoils all went to Ted Cruz.