The Latest: Sanders nets 10 delegates, still trails Clinton
Including superdelegates, or party officials who can back any candidate, Clinton holds a more substantial lead — 1,749 to Sanders' 1,061.
[...] Graham argues that Donald Trump would destroy the Republican Party for generations to come, wiping out any chance of appealing to Hispanics, young people and others.
Hillary Clinton is punching her way into the New York primary, hitting Democratic primary rival Bernie Sanders on his truthfulness, readiness for office and ties to the Democratic party.
Despite a sizable delegate lead, the stakes are high for Clinton in New York, the state she represented for eight years in the Senate.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who backs Ted Cruz for president, said the GOP nomination fight was "very likely" headed to an open convention but the 36 delegates Cruz won on Tuesday are "locked in."
Under Wisconsin Republican Party rules, delegates must stick with the candidate they are pledged to until they are either released by that candidate or if the person fails to get a third of the vote at the convention after the first round.
"Ted Cruz will win on the second ballot if not on the way in and he will unite the party," Walker, who withdrew his presidential candidacy, said in an interview Wednesday on WTMJ radio in Milwaukee.
A Republican aide says top campaign advisers to Ohio Gov. John Kasich plan to meet with leading GOP activists in Washington.
The meeting Wednesday aims to discuss the presidential candidate's strategy for continuing his campaign and battling for the nomination at the party's Cleveland convention in July.
The only contest the Ohio governor has so far won was in his home state, but he continues to compile a modest number of delegates — delegates that could be crucial in the tight race for the nomination.
Tuesday's unofficial number was calculated from numbers compiled by The Associated Press in the two presidential primaries, with 2,106,726 ballots cast from a voting-age population of 4.44 million people.
Clinton told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Sanders' recent remark that gun dealers shouldn't necessarily be subject to lawsuits was "unimaginable" because it put the rights of the gun industry above parents whose children have been killed by guns.